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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting	14
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	11
Ethical Prison Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review of Prison Design Features Related to Wellbeing	11
Gentrification and the Right to the Geomedia City	9
Food and White Multiculturalism: Racial Aesthetics of Commercial Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat	7
The Blacktown Native Institution as a Living, Embodied Being: Decolonizing Australian First Nations Zones of Trauma Through Creativity	7
Mythology as a Driver of Creative Economy in Waterfront Regeneration: The Case of Savamala in Belgrade, Serbia	6
The Social Life of a Barrier: A Material Ethnography of Urban Counter-terrorism	6
Delinquent Girls as Activists: Insider Activism and Carceral Welfare	5
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks	5
Public Perception Influence on the Reshaping Urban Heritage: A Case Study of Port Said Historic Quarters	5
Indigenous Cartographies: Pervasive Games and Place-Based Storytelling	5
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism	5
A Walk in the Park With Robodog: Navigating Around Pedestrians Using a Spot Robot as a “Guide Dog”	5
Theorizing Otherwise: Sites of Conscience and Gendered Violence	4
Making Cultural Values out of Urban Ruins: Re-enactments of Atmospheres	4
Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience	4
A Suitable Place to Remember? Derelict Magdalen Laundries as Possible Sites of Conscience in Contemporary Ireland	4
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	4
Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada’s Prison for Women	4
Sensing Urban Values: Reassessing Urban Cultures and Histories Amidst Redevelopment Agendas	3
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective	3
Staying in Crisis: Choice or Coercion a Review of the Reasons of Rural-to-Urban Migrations Due to Environmental Changes in Iranian Villages	3
Keepers of the Grave: Ritual Guides, Ghosts, and Hidden Narratives in Indonesian History	3
The Representation and Agency of Artistic Interventions in Community in Mainland China	3

It’s So Ridiculously Soulless: Geolocative Media, Place And Third Wave Gentrification	3
The Dilemma of Saudi Arabian Homes in Riyadh	3
Promises of Urbanism: New Songdo City and the Power of Infrastructure	3
“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin	3
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	3
Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse Analysis	3
Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City	3
(Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture, and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul	3
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice	3
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design	3
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	2
Architecturations of Pentecostal Power: Contribution to a Sociology of Pentecostal Auditoriums	2
Getting the Right Shade of Ochre: Valuation of a Building’s Historicity	2
Long-Term Care Homes: Carceral Spaces in Times of Crisis or Perpetually?	2
A New Synagogue, a Garrison Church, and a Mosque: How Religious (Re)Building Animates Religious and Secular Life in Postsocialist Potsdam	2
Housing, Personhood and Affect in Gentrifying Garden Villages of Amsterdam	2
Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda	2
#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens	2
Memory, Place, and Mobility: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s Mobile Education Centre as a Site of Conscience	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
A New Sensibility towards Unfinished Ruins: Affective Knowledge Translation through Experimental Video	2
The Floor: A Reinterpretation of the Korean Home, Focusing on the Ondol	2
The Vertical Street as Everyday Place in the High-Density City: A Case Study of Mong Kok, Hong Kong	2
Space and Culture: Quarantine	2
“Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”: The Marginalization of Street Skateboarding in the City of Melbourne’s “Skate Melbourne Plan”	2
Cape Town’s “Day Zero” Drought: Notes on a Future History of Urban Dwelling	2
Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism	2
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	2
Sensing Playgrounding: Playful Design Workshops to Reimagine the City as Playground	2
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	1
How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment	1
Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	1
From Train Station to Night Market: Bangkok’s Talad Rod Fai as Urban Liminoid Space	1
The Influence of the Lotus Flower Theme on the Perception of Contemporary Urban Architecture	1
The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post-Socialist Mass Housing	1
Critical Heritage “From Below”: (E)valu(at)ing Informal War Pasts in Perak, Malaysia	1
Bachelard, Besson and Bakhtin: A Dialogical Discourse on the Potential of Intimate Space	1
Si(gh)ting the City: An Uber View of Calcutta	1
Vulnerability and Resilience Embedded in Discourses: Literature, Media, and Actors’ Cultural Knowledge in German and Polish River Regions	1
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience	1
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	1
Social Infrastructures in Times of Corona: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sociality, Practices, and Materiality	1
The Concept of Tent as a Temporary Architecture in the Millennium Era	1
The Fuzzy Side of Publicness: Visualizing Street Politics of Everyday life through the Lens of Distance	1
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: An Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	1
Different Patterns of the Revitalization of Collective Memory in Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Cases of Columbia Circle and the Blue House Cluster	1
Memories of State Terrorism in Chile: Dark Ruins at Villa Grimaldi	1
Commodification of the Egyptian New Capital: A Semio-Foucauldian Landscape Analysis	1
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	1
Monuments and the Sited Struggles of Memorialisation	1

St. Petersburg as a Place of Belonging: Sticker Artists Inhabit and Imagine the City	1
Rights and Stones: Pentecostal Autoconstruction and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro	1
The Bottom-up Place Branding of a Neighborhood: Analyzing a Case of Selective Empowerment	1
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	1
Urban Space, Functional Differentiation, and Conditions of Religious Place-Making in 19th-Century German and British Cities	1
Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art, Space-Making, and Urban Change in Izmir Darağaç	1
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	1
Comparative Spatial Intimacies and the Affective Geography of Home: Imaginaries and Sense-Regimes in the Soviet-Era Baltics	1
Concrete Monsters of the Welfare State: Discussions of Brutalist Architecture on Social Media	1
The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene	1
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces	1
Sites of Violence, Sites of Peace, Sites of Justice: Transforming the Relational Landscape of Yogyakarta	1
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	1
Memory Surrounding a Mausoleum: Transforming Spain’s Valley of the Fallen Into a Site of Conscience	1