TY - BOOK AU - Beaumont,Matthew AU - Dart,Gregory TI - Restless cities SN - 9781844674053 (pbk.) : AV - HT119 .R47 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Verso Books KW - City and town life KW - Cities and towns KW - Sociology, Urban N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -