Restless Cities

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, this book traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis.

A culturally and historically rich illumination of the city in all its complexity.

A richly alternative guide to city living.

A gem of a book, by turns inspiring, shocking and consistently intelligent.

Bold and admirable.

Fresh and piquant observations about aspects of modern living.

Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue . He has also edited Restless Cities . He lives and walks in London.