A growing area in space studies is the theorization of urban space. The scope of such studies include, as Barker has shown in Cultural Studies :

•  The political economy of global cities

•  The symbolic or cultural economies of urban regeneration

•  The emergence of postmodern cites as contested spaces

•  The idea that cities can be read as texts

•  The virtual world of cybercities

Studying the city has a wide range of scholarship contributing various perspectives, for example:

•  Plant life and ecology

•  Economic development, restructuring and investment

•  Power and surveillance

•  Symbolic culture, suburbanization and gentrification

•  Postmodernism

•  Information technology

Nayar lists the following additional perspectives:

•  Spaces of home use discourses of property

•  Spaces of home and housing are about lifestyles

•  Media urbanism marks cities increasingly linked to global spaces

•  The functional aesthetic of the home is also linked to globalism

•  City development projects bureaucratize space.

•  City development programmes exhibit a translocal urbanism