OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Space and Culture is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Representation and Agency of Artistic Interventions in Community in Mainland China	19
A New Synagogue, a Garrison Church, and a Mosque: How Religious (Re)Building Animates Religious and Secular Life in Postsocialist Potsdam	15
“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin	11
Listening Beyond the Human: The Autonomous Recording Unit and the Ethics of Sound in Biodiversity Conservation	10
Keepers of the Grave: Ritual Guides, Ghosts, and Hidden Narratives in Indonesian History	10
Si(gh)ting the City: An Uber View of Calcutta	9
The Ocean of Green: Hogweed Against Russian World	9
Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience	8
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice	7
Spaces of Displacement on the Island of Imbros/Gökçeada	7
The Blacktown Native Institution as a Living, Embodied Being: Decolonizing Australian First Nations Zones of Trauma Through Creativity	7
“Look at Me!”: The Public and Digital Political Campaigns of People With Disability During Chile’s Sociopolitical Crisis	7
Measures of Restraint: The Remaking of Carceral Space in the Postwar United States	7
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	6
Gentrification and the Right to the Geomedia City	5
A Walk in the Park With Robodog: Navigating Around Pedestrians Using a Spot Robot as a “Guide Dog”	5
Tactical Chor(e)ographies: Tactics of Inhibition as a Threat to Public Space in Limassol’s Seafront	5
Sounding Epistemologies: Placemaking Through Sound	5
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	4
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	4
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design	4
Introduction to the Special Issue: Cities as Playgrounds/Playgrounds as Cities: Rethinking Urban Play, Civic Engagement, and Socio-spatiality	4
What Does It Mean to Be a Site of Conscience? “Good Trouble” Across the Globe	4
Design as Playground: Exploring Spatial Design Through Playful Practices	4
Placemaking Eichstätt: Perspectives and Intersections	3

Spaces of Anti-Ableist, Feminist Resistance	3
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	3
The Song of Food	3
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces	3
The Community as a Liminal Correctional Space	3
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	3
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	3
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	3
Dumpster Diving: Aquatic Leisure, DIY Aesthetics, and Performance of Public Space in Macro Sea’s Mobile Pools	3
St. Petersburg as a Place of Belonging: Sticker Artists Inhabit and Imagine the City	3
Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries	2
Bodies under Pressure: Experiencing Waiting Time in Basic Health Care Facilities (Morocco)	2
Taking and Making Place Through Sound: From the Phonotope to the Phonocene	2
Promises of Urbanism: New Songdo City and the Power of Infrastructure	2
Indigenous Cartographies: Pervasive Games and Place-Based Storytelling	2
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective	2
Making Informal Sacred Geographies: Spiritual Presence, Sensual Engagement, and Wayside Shrines in Urban India	2
Staying in Crisis: Choice or Coercion a Review of the Reasons of Rural-to-Urban Migrations Due to Environmental Changes in Iranian Villages	2
Place Branding Viewed From the Perspective of the Poetics of Space: The Case of Aesop’s Signature Stores	2
Corrigendum to Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan	2
Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism	2
(Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture, and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul	2
Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds	2
The Influence of the Lotus Flower Theme on the Perception of Contemporary Urban Architecture	2
Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City	2
Postcards	2
Long-Term Care Homes: Carceral Spaces in Times of Crisis or Perpetually?	2
Bachelard, Besson and Bakhtin: A Dialogical Discourse on the Potential of Intimate Space	2
The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene	2
Comparative Spatial Intimacies and the Affective Geography of Home: Imaginaries and Sense-Regimes in the Soviet-Era Baltics	2
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	2