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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	32
Listening Beyond the Human: The Autonomous Recording Unit and the Ethics of Sound in Biodiversity Conservation	24
Thinking the Urban With Bourdieu: An Interview With Loïc Wacquant	16
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	13
Foucault’s Heterotopias and the Redemptive Spaces of Saul Bellow’s Fiction	11
Persistence of Everyday Sacred Landscapes: Shrines, Village Temples, and Hillside Cemetery in Shenzhen	10
Reassembling French Colonial Heritage in Postcolonial Hanoi: Towards Co-creative Urban Futures	10
From Vernacular Syntax to Algorithmic Regenerative Design: Semiotic Decoding and Encoding of Kashgar’s Earthen Dwellings	9
Street Art Muralism and the Right to the City	8
Media Visibility and Gendered Spaces: The Portrayal of Women in Tea Shops in Malayalam Cinema	7
Ritual, Memory, and the Sacred: Dynamics of Landscape Transformation among the Deoris of Assam	7
Looking Back From the Perspective of Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of Zonguldak, Turkey	7
Unintended Artistic Consequences of Graffiti Removal in Urban Landscapes	6
Re-Thinking the “City of Fear”: A Social Reproduction Approach to the Spatialization of Women’s Fear	6
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	6
Diasporic Spaces of Conviviality and Domesticity: On the Political Significance of Kitchens in Post-War Britain	5
Public Perception of Street Clowns: The Formation of Social Norms and Stigma Around Street Artwork in Urban Public Spaces	5
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	5
Curating Visual–Spatial–Human Interactions: Clustered Pop-Up Stores Inscribing Commercial Discourse in Seongsu-Dong, Seoul	5
Designing (Dis)Engagement: Reading the Throwaway Waste Exhibition as a Spatial Text	4
Memorial in the Closet: A Cognitive Reading of the Kordon Platform Through Camera Lucida	4
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	4
The Art of Taking Space: Interdependencies in the Contemporary Art Ecosystem in Milan, Italy	4
Can You Pass? Thresholds of Queer Cultural Spaces in Seoul	4
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	4

Publication Note	4
Urban Grit: Probing the Urban Commons With Residents of Oliver Bond Housing Complex in Dublin, Ireland	4
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	4
The Morphology of Activity Centers, the Commons, and Shopping Malls in Multicultural Singapore	3
City of Fluids , City of Voids : Risk Discourses and the Figurations of Children’s Spatial Cultures in Mid	3
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	3
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	3
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	3
Proletarians in Care: Laboring Animals and Plants	3
Geographies of Despair and Possibility in Rural Cinema: Sacred Space in Jamaa (2010) Between Representation, Rural Sovereignty, Religious Decay, and the	3
Cultivating Farm Spaces: Pro-Rural Migrants and the Spatial Negotiation of Rural Belonging	3
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	3
Evolving Autonomy Through Repair: Trial-and-Error Spatial Practices in a Japanese Squatted Space	3
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	2
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	2
Representations of Afghans in the Iranian Cinema	2
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	2
Painting Belonging: Community Murals as Tools for Social Cohesion in Kaunas	2
Designing for Conviviality: A Context-Sensitive Framework for Evaluating Public Parks in Cairo, Egypt	2
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	2
The Terrace of Mischiefs: Existential-Emancipation through Space–Time Appropriations in Beyoğlu	2
Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden	2
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	2
The Song of Food	2