Title & Author:

Restless cities / edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2010.

Description:

xi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Archiving / Michael Sheringham -- Bombing / Chris Petit -- Commuting / Rachel Bowlby -- Convalescing / Matthew Beaumont -- Daydreaming / Gregory Dart -- Driving / Iain Borden -- Falling / Marshall Berman -- Imaging / Patrick Keiller -- Inhabiting / Geoff Dyer -- t Lodging / Michael Newton -- Phoning / David Trotter -- Potting / Kasia Boddy -- Recycling / Esther Leslie -- Sickening / Iain Sinclair -- Waiting / Michael Sayeau -- Zigzagging / Mark W. Turner.
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Summary:

"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 traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide, property, commuting and recycling, this wide-ranging new book identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals. Bringing together some of the most significant cultural writers of our time, Restless Cities is an illuminating, revelatory journey to the heart of our metropolitan world."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781844674053 (paperback)
1844674053 (paperback)

Subject:

City and town life.
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Vie urbaine.
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
71.14 urban society.
Metropolis.
Urbanism.
Stadt.
Alltag.
Lebensstil.
Stadtsoziologie.

Added entries:

Beaumont, Matthew, 1972- editor.
Dart, Gregory, editor.
Sheringham, Michael. Archiving.
Sinclair, Iain, 1943- Sickening.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269456
Call No.: BIB 201708
Status: Available