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 2021-04-01 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
Architecturations of Pentecostal Power: Contribution to a Sociology of Pentecostal Auditoriums	1
Theorizing Otherwise: Sites of Conscience and Gendered Violence	1
Memory, Place, and Mobility: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s Mobile Education Centre as a Site of Conscience	1
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	1
The March as a Safe Space and Dynamics of Resocialization	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
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	1
Rethinking Restriction in Residential Aged Care: Dis/Abling Movement and Relations in the Time of COVID-19	1
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	1
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	1
Exhausting the Home Interior: A Perecquian Methodology for the Study of Temporary Homemaking	1
Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature	1
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	1
The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post-Socialist Mass Housing	1
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: An Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	1
Concrete Monsters of the Welfare State: Discussions of Brutalist Architecture on Social Media	1
The Commercialization Butterfly: Glimpses of Commerce of Traditional Crafts of Assam	1
COVID-19 as a Crisis of Confinement: What We Can Learn From the Lived Experiences of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Care Institutions	1
Publication Note	1

Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	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
Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art, Space-Making, and Urban Change in Izmir Darağaç	1
Spatializing Nationalism and Religion: The Production of Sinhala-Buddhist Imagination and the Centrality of Anuradhapura	1
Reworlding: Urban Play as Method for Exploring Alternate Social Imaginaries	1
Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity	1
The Absurdity of the Ordinary: The Fragile Affinity Between Imagination and Materiality in the Finnish Urban Periphery	1
A Suitable Place to Remember? Derelict Magdalen Laundries as Possible Sites of Conscience in Contemporary Ireland	1
Urban Space, Functional Differentiation, and Conditions of Religious Place-Making in 19th-Century German and British Cities	1
Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	1
Public Perception Influence on the Reshaping Urban Heritage: A Case Study of Port Said Historic Quarters	1
Vihara: The Making of Social Space for the Chinese and Malay Communities in Pekan Labuhan	1