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  1. Peri-urban transformation and quality of life in post-socialist cities

    Article • Cogent Social Sciences, July 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  2. Memory activism of the 1989 Romanian Revolution

    Article • Memory Studies, May 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Remus Cretan

  3. Street (Re)Naming Practices and Spatial Ethnolinguistic Contact in Timisoara

    Article • GeoHumanities, May 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  4. Assessing multifunctional mountain landscape in an Eastern European framework

    Article • Geographical Research, February 2026, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  5. Acceptance and contestation of monuments in the central area of a post-socialist city

    Article • February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Remus Cretan

  6. Computational Analysis of Contested Monuments and Collective Memory in a Multiethnic City

    Article • Geographical Journal, February 2026, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  7. On the slow train: tourists’ experiences of deceleration

    Article • Mobilities, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  8. Quality of Life and the Role of Daily Mobility in Postsocialist Peri-urban Spaces

    Article • Geographies, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  9. The Use of GIS Techniques for Land Use in a South Carpathian River Basin—Case Study

    Article • Sustainability, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  10. Conversion Factors in the Financial Capabilities of Extremely Poor and Segregated Roma Families

    Article • Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  11. Postmemory and Emotion of the 1989 Romanian Revolution Among Y and Z Generations

    Article • Population Space and Place, December 2025, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  12. Towards Social Justice for the Deportees in the Bărăgan Area

    Article • Population Space and Place, December 2025, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  13. The Role of Territorial Cohesion and Administrative Organization in Regional Sustainability

    Article • Sustainability, October 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  14. Derelict Rural Heritage: The Case of the Castles in the Lower Mureș Valley, Romania

    Article • Heritage, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  15. Community Perception on a Temporary Plant Nursury Installation

    Article • Regional Science Policy & Practice, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  16. Placemaking and tactical urbanism on the spatial reconfiguration of urban schools

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Remus Cretan

  17. Factors influencing the vertical social mobility of urban Roma mothers living in extreme poverty

    Article • Habitat International, April 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  18. What facilitates the socio-economic adaptation of migrant women?

    Article • Cogent Social Sciences, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  19. Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context

    Article • Tourism Geographies, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  20. Mental maps, generational insights and symbols of urban spaces in a Romanian context

    Article • GeoJournal, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Remus Cretan

  21. Towards a more inclusive perception of a territorially stigmatized area?

    Article • Cities, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  22. Understanding a Case of Wealthy Influencers and Misogyny

    Article • Societies, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  23. Techno-capitalism and inequality: Silicon Valley's global influence

    Article • Dialogues in Urban Research, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Remus Cretan

  24. The City as Stage: Labour Protest, Sentiment, and Machine Learning

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  25. Visitors’ perceptions on ecosystem services in the urban and peri-urban forests

    Article • Forests, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  26. Beyond mass food production and consumption: the emergence of alternative food networks in Romania

    Article • Cogent Social Sciences, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  27. Mapping Perception: Analyzing Mental Representations of Urban Space

    Article • Urban Science, November 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  28. Divergent Narratives in the Imagining of Mine Reopening and Tourism in a Romanian Town

    Article • Cities, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  29. Landscapes of Watermills in an East-Central European Context

    Article • Heritage, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  30. Rural Landscapes as Cultural Heritage and Identity along a Romanian River

    Article • Heritage, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  31. Recent Urban-to-Rural Migration and Its Impact on the Heritage of Depopulated Rural Areas

    Article • Heritage, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  32. Souvenir practices of domestic tourists

    Article • Current Issues in Tourism, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  33. The Cultural Impact of Recent Urban-Rural Migration on Depopulated Rural Areas in Southern Transylvania

    Article • July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  34. Landscapes of Watermills: A Rural Cultural Heritage Perspective in an East-Central European Context

    Article • July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  35. Reconstruction Mode of Abandoned Mining Areas

    Article • Land, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  36. Challenges of Socioeconomic Marginalization in a South Carpathian Area

    Article • Land, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  37. Religions Fractionalization and Polarization in Post-Communist Romania

    Article • Religions, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  38. Culturally Divided by a River

    Article • June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  39. Neglected and Peripheral Spaces in a South Carpathian Area

    Article • June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  40. Rehabilitation of Abandoned Mining Sites

    Article • April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  41. Religious Fractionalization and Polarization in Post-communist Romania

    Article • March 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  42. Living with Bears in Romania

    Article • Animals, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  43. Souvenir sellers in Romania

    Article • The Tourist Review, January 2024, Emerald

    Dr Remus Cretan, Dr Duncan Light

  44. Post-Communist Industrial Areas: copper mining and tourism in a Romanian town

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  45. A Territorially Stigmatized Area

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  46. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS

    Article • Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, January 2024, OAIMDD - EcoZone Publishing House

    Dr Remus Cretan

  47. How Communities React to the Urban Innovation Initiative for Sustainable Futures

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  48. Population displacement and vulnerability from the Iron Gates Hydroelectric Project

    Article • Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, December 2023, Babes-Bolyai University

    Dr Remus Cretan

  49. Romanian Roma migrant women and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home

    Article • Area, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  50. THE ROLES PLAYED BY SPATIAL VICINITY AND CULTURAL PROXIMITY AMONG ETHNIC MINORITIES IN ROMANIA

    Article • Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, October 2023, CICADIT, University of Bucharest

    Dr Remus Cretan

  51. Smart city projects in Romania

    Article • Area, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  52. Ethnicities in Post-Communist Romania

    Article • Land, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  53. Potential urban regeneration in a historical neighbourhood

    Article • E3S Web of Conferences, January 2023, EDP Sciences

    Dr Remus Cretan

  54. Gender violence against the Roma migrant women

    Article • Geographica Pannonica, January 2023, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Dr Remus Cretan

  55. Internal migration and stigmatization in the rural Banat region of Romania

    Article • Identities, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  56. Postmemory sits in places: the relationship of young Romanians to the communist past

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  57. Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, November 2021, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  58. Social mixing, social capital, and the lived experience of urban desegregation in the Roma community

    Article • Cities, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  59. Coronavirus and work around the world

    Article • Comparative Southeast European Studies, September 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr Remus Cretan

  60. Museums and Transitional Justice

    Article • Societies, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Remus Cretan

  61. Encounters between Roma and non-Roma in an East-Central European borderland

    Article • Identities, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  62. Who owns the name? Fandom, social inequalities and the contested renaming of a football club in Timişoara, Romania

    Article • April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  63. Gold extraction, local community, and rural decline in Romania

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  64. Pandemic Populism and The Nationalist Alliance for Unity of Romanians Party

    Article • Geographica Pannonica, January 2021, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Dr Remus Cretan

  65. SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE ALLEVIATION OF EXTREME POVERTY

    Article • Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, October 2020, CICADIT, University of Bucharest

    Dr Remus Cretan

  66. DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED DISPLACEMENT IN ROMANIA

    Article • Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, October 2020, CICADIT, University of Bucharest

    Dr Remus Cretan

  67. Branding Narratives in a Romanian City

    Article • Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, September 2020, CICADIT, University of Bucharest

    Dr Remus Cretan

  68. COVID-19 in Romania: transnational labour, geopolitics, and the Roma ‘outsiders’

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  69. Changing Tourism in the Cities of Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  70. Transitional justice and domestic tourism

    Article • Current Issues in Tourism, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  71. On the perpetuation and contestation of racial stigma

    Article • Geographica Pannonica, January 2020, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Dr Remus Cretan

  72. Negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

    Article • Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  73. This is a book review based on Hans Andersen's study published with Routledge.

    Article • Housing Studies, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  74. Corruption and conflagration: (in)justice and protest in Bucharest after the Colectiv fire

    Article • Urban Geography, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  75. Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Romania

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  76. Young people and empathy in a memorial museum

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan, Dr Duncan Light

  77. Socio-environmental justice, participatory development, and empowerment of segregated urban Roma

    Article • Cities, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Remus Cretan

  78. Fandom, social inequalities and the contested renaming of a football club in Romania

    Article • Urban Geography, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  79. The power of group stigmatisation: Wealthy Roma, Urban Space and Strategies of Defence...

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  80. Urban Roma, segregation and place attachment in Szeged, Hungary

    Article • Area, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan, György Málovics

  81. The Role of Identity in the 2015 Romanian Shepherd Protests

    Article • Identities, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  82. Foreign Direct Investment and Social Risk in Romania: Progress in Less-Favoured Areas 1

    Article • November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  83. Intergenerational remembrance of the Iron Gates displacements in Romania

    Article • Area, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  84. The Political Economy of the Iron Gates

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  85. Anisotropic spaces and mobility

    Article • Acta geographica Slovenica, February 2016, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Dr Remus Cretan, IOAN SEBASTIAN JUCU

  86. Street naming and the politics of practicality in a post-socialist martyr city

    Article • Area, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  87. Shale gas and anti-fracking protests in Romania

    Article • Environmental Politics, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  88. Dog culling in Romania

    Article • Area, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  89. A (Re)Invented Identity in Romania

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  90. Environmental movements and the construction of environmental risk at Rosia Montana, Romania

    Article • Area, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  91. Mono-industrialism and alternative development: : the Case of Roşia Montană

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Remus Cretan

  92. Romania’s Airlines and Airports during Transition

    Article • Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, January 2012, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Dr Remus Cretan

  93. Romania's Roma Population: From Marginality to Social Integration

    Article • Scottish Geographical Journal, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Remus Cretan

  94. Identity and multiculturalism in Banat

    Article • Méditerranée, January 2008, OpenEdition

    Dr Remus Cretan

  95. Bulgarie-Roumanie

    Article • Méditerranée, January 2008, OpenEdition

    Dr Remus Cretan