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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Listening Beyond the Human: The Autonomous Recording Unit and the Ethics of Sound in Biodiversity Conservation	31
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	30
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	23
Reassembling French Colonial Heritage in Postcolonial Hanoi: Towards Co-creative Urban Futures	18
Thinking the Urban With Bourdieu: An Interview With Loïc Wacquant	17
Foucault’s Heterotopias and the Redemptive Spaces of Saul Bellow’s Fiction	16
Persistence of Everyday Sacred Landscapes: Shrines, Village Temples, and Hillside Cemetery in Shenzhen	15
Street Art Muralism and the Right to the City	13
From Vernacular Syntax to Algorithmic Regenerative Design: Semiotic Decoding and Encoding of Kashgar’s Earthen Dwellings	11
Media Visibility and Gendered Spaces: The Portrayal of Women in Tea Shops in Malayalam Cinema	10
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	9
Looking Back From the Perspective of Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of Zonguldak, Turkey	9
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	8
Curating Visual–Spatial–Human Interactions: Clustered Pop-Up Stores Inscribing Commercial Discourse in Seongsu-Dong, Seoul	7
Re-Thinking the “City of Fear”: A Social Reproduction Approach to the Spatialization of Women’s Fear	7
Memorial in the Closet: A Cognitive Reading of the Kordon Platform Through Camera Lucida	7
Diasporic Spaces of Conviviality and Domesticity: On the Political Significance of Kitchens in Post-War Britain	7
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	6
The Morphology of Activity Centers, the Commons, and Shopping Malls in Multicultural Singapore	6
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	5
Urban Grit: Probing the Urban Commons With Residents of Oliver Bond Housing Complex in Dublin, Ireland	5
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	5
The Art of Taking Space: Interdependencies in the Contemporary Art Ecosystem in Milan, Italy	5
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	5
Can You Pass? Thresholds of Queer Cultural Spaces in Seoul	5

Publication Note	5
“Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”: The Marginalization of Street Skateboarding in the City of Melbourne’s “Skate Melbourne Plan”	4
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	4
Designing (Dis)Engagement: Reading the Throwaway Waste Exhibition as a Spatial Text	4
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	4
Geographies of Despair and Possibility in Rural Cinema: Sacred Space in Jamaa (2010) Between Representation, Rural Sovereignty, Religious Decay, and the Politics of Lega	4
Cultivating Farm Spaces: Pro-Rural Migrants and the Spatial Negotiation of Rural Belonging	4
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	4
Evolving Autonomy Through Repair: Trial-and-Error Spatial Practices in a Japanese Squatted Space	4
Painting Belonging: Community Murals as Tools for Social Cohesion in Kaunas	3
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	3
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	3
City of Fluids , City of Voids : Risk Discourses and the Figurations of Children’s Spatial Cultures in Mid	3
Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden	3
Designing for Conviviality: A Context-Sensitive Framework for Evaluating Public Parks in Cairo, Egypt	3
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	3
Proletarians in Care: Laboring Animals and Plants	3
Representations of Afghans in the Iranian Cinema	3
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	2
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	2
Social Infrastructures in Times of Corona: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sociality, Practices, and Materiality	2
Why Architecture?	2
The Terrace of Mischiefs: Existential-Emancipation through Space–Time Appropriations in Beyoğlu	2
Spatializing Nationalism and Religion: The Production of Sinhala-Buddhist Imagination and the Centrality of Anuradhapura	2
Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	2
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	2
The Song of Food	2
Picturing Palestine From Jordan: Contesting “Sykes-Picot Borders” Through Photography	2
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks	2