Beaumont, Matthew

Restless Cities

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ISBN 13:: 9781844674053
author:: Beaumont, Matthew
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Verso
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2010
Pages:: 344
Dimensions:: 20.8 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
Genre:: Essays
Condition:: New
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The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities explores the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. This wide-ranging book identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city, including phenomena such as nightwalking, urbicide, property, commuting and recycling. By bringing together some of the most significant cultural writers of our time, Restless Cities offers an illuminating journey to the heart of our metropolitan world. Through its explorations, the book reveals the complex relationships between urban life and individual experience, shedding light on the ways in which cities shape us and vice versa.

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