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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	12
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	12
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	12
Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art, Space-Making, and Urban Change in Izmir Darağaç	11
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	11
Publication Note	10
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	9
From Train Station to Night Market: Bangkok’s Talad Rod Fai as Urban Liminoid Space	9
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	8
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	8
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	8
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	7
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	7
“Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”: The Marginalization of Street Skateboarding in the City of Melbourne’s “Skate Melbourne Plan”	7
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	7
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	6
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	6
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	6
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	5
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	5
Memory, Place, and Mobility: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s Mobile Education Centre as a Site of Conscience	5
The Song of Food	5
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	5

Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	4
Spatializing Nationalism and Religion: The Production of Sinhala-Buddhist Imagination and the Centrality of Anuradhapura	4
Why Architecture?	4
Public Perception Influence on the Reshaping Urban Heritage: A Case Study of Port Said Historic Quarters	4
The March as a Safe Space and Dynamics of Resocialization	4
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks	4
Picturing Palestine From Jordan: Contesting “Sykes-Picot Borders” Through Photography	4
Social Infrastructures in Times of Corona: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sociality, Practices, and Materiality	4
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
Gentrification and the Right to the Geomedia City	3
Disability and Spatial Exclusion Under COVID-19 in South Africa	3
Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism	3
The Blacktown Native Institution as a Living, Embodied Being: Decolonizing Australian First Nations Zones of Trauma Through Creativity	3
Tactical Chor(e)ographies: Tactics of Inhibition as a Threat to Public Space in Limassol’s Seafront	3
Taking and Making Place Through Sound: From the Phonotope to the Phonocene	3
The Representation and Agency of Artistic Interventions in Community in Mainland China	2
Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City	2
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective	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
The Geomediatized Geographies of Marginalized Older Digital Citizens	2
Sounding Epistemologies: Placemaking Through Sound	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
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces	2
Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature	2
Dissolving Ableism: Could Disabled People Flourish During the First Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 Lockdown?	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: Cities as Playgrounds/Playgrounds as Cities: Rethinking Urban Play, Civic Engagement, and Socio-spatiality	2
The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post-Socialist Mass Housing	2
(Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture, and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul	2
Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity	2
Rights and Stones: Pentecostal Autoconstruction and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro	2
Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan	2
Vihara: The Making of Social Space for the Chinese and Malay Communities in Pekan Labuhan	1
Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds	1
Spaces of Displacement on the Island of Imbros/Gökçeada	1
Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada’s Prison for Women	1
Spaced Apart: Autoethnographies of Access Throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic	1
Urban Game Dynamics: How Game Designers, Curators, and Players Create New Possibilities	1
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism	1
Postcards	1
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	1
Promises of Urbanism: New Songdo City and the Power of Infrastructure	1
#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens	1
Keepers of the Grave: Ritual Guides, Ghosts, and Hidden Narratives in Indonesian History	1
Between Taking and Making Place: Exploring the Linkages Between Serres’ Le Parasite and the Research Practice of Creative Intervention	1
Cultivating the Symbolic Capital of Singularity: The Vineyard, From Space to Place	1
Obituary: Orlando Cordia Hall (Shakib Wali) 1971-2020	1
Delinquent Girls as Activists: Insider Activism and Carceral Welfare	1
Reworlding: Urban Play as Method for Exploring Alternate Social Imaginaries	1

What Does It Mean to Be a Site of Conscience? “Good Trouble” Across the Globe	1
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design	1
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience	1
Si(gh)ting the City: An Uber View of Calcutta	1
The Community as a Liminal Correctional Space	1
Spaces of Anti-Ableist, Feminist Resistance	1
Place Diagnosis Before Transformation: Case of Fener-Balat	1
Exhausting the Home Interior: A Perecquian Methodology for the Study of Temporary Homemaking	1
The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene	1
Measures of Restraint: The Remaking of Carceral Space in the Postwar United States	1