OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Space and Culture is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice	23
Listening Beyond the Human: The Autonomous Recording Unit and the Ethics of Sound in Biodiversity Conservation	23
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	14
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	13
Thinking the Urban With Bourdieu: An Interview With Loïc Wacquant	12
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	11
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	11
Publication Note	10
Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art, Space-Making, and Urban Change in Izmir Darağaç	10
From Train Station to Night Market: Bangkok’s Talad Rod Fai as Urban Liminoid Space	9
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	8
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	8
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	8
Can You Pass? Thresholds of Queer Cultural Spaces in Seoul	7
The Art of Taking Space: Interdependencies in the Contemporary Art Ecosystem in Milan, Italy	7
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	7
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	7
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	6
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	6
“Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”: The Marginalization of Street Skateboarding in the City of Melbourne’s “Skate Melbourne Plan”	6
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	5
Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden	5
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	5
Geographies of Despair and Possibility in Rural Cinema: Sacred Space in Jamaa (2010) Between Representation, Rural Sovereignty, Religious Decay, and the Politics of Lega	5
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	4

The Song of Food	4
Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	4
Public Perception Influence on the Reshaping Urban Heritage: A Case Study of Port Said Historic Quarters	4
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	4
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	4
Social Infrastructures in Times of Corona: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sociality, Practices, and Materiality	4
Spatializing Nationalism and Religion: The Production of Sinhala-Buddhist Imagination and the Centrality of Anuradhapura	4
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	4
Memory, Place, and Mobility: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s Mobile Education Centre as a Site of Conscience	4
Picturing Palestine From Jordan: Contesting “Sykes-Picot Borders” Through Photography	4
Disability and Spatial Exclusion Under COVID-19 in South Africa	3
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks	3
Why Architecture?	3
Site-Specific Art as a Tool for Memory Recycling: A Case Study of an Abandoned Factory	3
Memories of State Terrorism in Chile: Dark Ruins at Villa Grimaldi	3
Sites of Violence, Sites of Peace, Sites of Justice: Transforming the Relational Landscape of Yogyakarta	3
Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity	2
C.S. Peirce Loves Craft Beers: Indexicality and the Anchoring of Craft in Place	2
Taking and Making Place Through Sound: From the Phonotope to the Phonocene	2
Tactical Chor(e)ographies: Tactics of Inhibition as a Threat to Public Space in Limassol’s Seafront	2
(Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture, and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul	2
COVID-19 as a Crisis of Confinement: What We Can Learn From the Lived Experiences of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Care Institutions	2
Haʻu ka Waha i ka Nahele: Dissonance and Song in Kanaka Sites of Counter-Memory	2
Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries	2
Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism	2
The Blacktown Native Institution as a Living, Embodied Being: Decolonizing Australian First Nations Zones of Trauma Through Creativity	2
The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post-Socialist Mass Housing	2
Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature	2
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective	2
Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City	2
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces	2
Gentrification and the Right to the Geomedia City	2
Rights and Stones: Pentecostal Autoconstruction and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro	1
Refiguring the Production Regime of Soap-Operas: The Case of Afronovelas in francophone West Africa	1
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design	1
The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene	1
Reworlding: Urban Play as Method for Exploring Alternate Social Imaginaries	1
Exhausting the Home Interior: A Perecquian Methodology for the Study of Temporary Homemaking	1
Obituary: Orlando Cordia Hall (Shakib Wali) 1971-2020	1
Place Diagnosis Before Transformation: Case of Fener-Balat	1
Measures of Restraint: The Remaking of Carceral Space in the Postwar United States	1
The Representation and Agency of Artistic Interventions in Community in Mainland China	1
The Geomediatized Geographies of Marginalized Older Digital Citizens	1
Drone Visuals: Urban Wasteland and Apocalyptic Memory	1
Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan	1
Urban Game Dynamics: How Game Designers, Curators, and Players Create New Possibilities	1
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism	1
Delinquent Girls as Activists: Insider Activism and Carceral Welfare	1
#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens	1
Sounding Epistemologies: Placemaking Through Sound	1

Introduction to the Special Issue: Cities as Playgrounds/Playgrounds as Cities: Rethinking Urban Play, Civic Engagement, and Socio-spatiality	1
Power, Paper, and Profit: Street Posters and the Making of Urban Visual Culture	1
Dissolving Ableism: Could Disabled People Flourish During the First Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 Lockdown?	1
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	1
Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds	1
Vihara: The Making of Social Space for the Chinese and Malay Communities in Pekan Labuhan	1
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience	1
Postcards	1
What Does It Mean to Be a Site of Conscience? “Good Trouble” Across the Globe	1