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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	24
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
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice	14
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	14
Persistence of Everyday Sacred Landscapes: Shrines, Village Temples, and Hillside Cemetery in Shenzhen	13
Re-Thinking the “City of Fear”: A Social Reproduction Approach to the Spatialization of Women’s Fear	11
From Vernacular Syntax to Algorithmic Regenerative Design: Semiotic Decoding and Encoding of Kashgar’s Earthen Dwellings	11
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	10
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	10
Publication Note	9
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	8
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	8
The Morphology of Activity Centers, the Commons, and Shopping Malls in Multicultural Singapore	8
Memorial in the Closet: A Cognitive Reading of the Kordon Platform Through Camera Lucida	8
The Art of Taking Space: Interdependencies in the Contemporary Art Ecosystem in Milan, Italy	7
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	6
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	6
Can You Pass? Thresholds of Queer Cultural Spaces in Seoul	6
“Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”: The Marginalization of Street Skateboarding in the City of Melbourne’s “Skate Melbourne Plan”	6
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	5
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	5
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	5
Geographies of Despair and Possibility in Rural Cinema: Sacred Space in Jamaa (2010) Between Representation, Rural Sovereignty, Religious Decay, and the Politics of Lega	5
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	5

Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden	5
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	5
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	4
Picturing Palestine From Jordan: Contesting “Sykes-Picot Borders” Through Photography	4
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	4
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	4
Memory, Place, and Mobility: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s Mobile Education Centre as a Site of Conscience	4
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	4
The Song of Food	4
Spatializing Nationalism and Religion: The Production of Sinhala-Buddhist Imagination and the Centrality of Anuradhapura	4
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks	3
Disability and Spatial Exclusion Under COVID-19 in South Africa	3
Social Infrastructures in Times of Corona: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sociality, Practices, and Materiality	3
Why Architecture?	3
Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	3
Memories of State Terrorism in Chile: Dark Ruins at Villa Grimaldi	3
Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City	2
The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post-Socialist Mass Housing	2
Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature	2
Sites of Violence, Sites of Peace, Sites of Justice: Transforming the Relational Landscape of Yogyakarta	2
Gentrification and the Right to the Geomedia City	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
COVID-19 as a Crisis of Confinement: What We Can Learn From the Lived Experiences of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Care Institutions	2
Haʻu ka Waha i ka Nahele: Dissonance and Song in Kanaka Sites of Counter-Memory	2
(Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture, and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul	2
Tactical Chor(e)ographies: Tactics of Inhibition as a Threat to Public Space in Limassol’s Seafront	2
Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism	2
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective	2
Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity	2
Porous Walls and Identity Management: A Case Study of a Role and an Identity Attached to Former School Experiences, Temporary Present in the Home	2
Site-Specific Art as a Tool for Memory Recycling: A Case Study of an Abandoned Factory	2
The Blacktown Native Institution as a Living, Embodied Being: Decolonizing Australian First Nations Zones of Trauma Through Creativity	2
Taking and Making Place Through Sound: From the Phonotope to the Phonocene	2
Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan	1
Drone Visuals: Urban Wasteland and Apocalyptic Memory	1
Sounding Epistemologies: Placemaking Through Sound	1
Reworlding: Urban Play as Method for Exploring Alternate Social Imaginaries	1
The Representation and Agency of Artistic Interventions in Community in Mainland China	1
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism	1
Measures of Restraint: The Remaking of Carceral Space in the Postwar United States	1
Dissolving Ableism: Could Disabled People Flourish During the First Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 Lockdown?	1
C.S. Peirce Loves Craft Beers: Indexicality and the Anchoring of Craft in Place	1
Refiguring the Production Regime of Soap-Operas: The Case of Afronovelas in francophone West Africa	1
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	1
The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene	1
What Does It Mean to Be a Site of Conscience? “Good Trouble” Across the Globe	1
Rights and Stones: Pentecostal Autoconstruction and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro	1
Power, Paper, and Profit: Street Posters and the Making of Urban Visual Culture	1
The Geomediatized Geographies of Marginalized Older Digital Citizens	1

Introduction to the Special Issue: Cities as Playgrounds/Playgrounds as Cities: Rethinking Urban Play, Civic Engagement, and Socio-spatiality	1
Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds	1
Postcards	1
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design	1