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A collection of quirky and occasionally superb essays by an eclectic range of writers and academics, which attempts to define new ways of reading the city and bring us back, by and large, to London. ... Collectively they do an excellent job. --Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times
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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 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, from Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit and Geoff Dyer to Esther Leslie, Marshall Berman, and Patrick Keiller, Restless Cities is an illuminating, revelatory journey to the heart of our metropolitan world. Contributors: Matthew Beaumont, Marshall Berman, Kaisa Boddy, Iain Borden, Rachel Bowlby, Gregory Dart, Geoff Dyer, Patrick Keiller, Esther Leslie, Michael Newton, Chris Petit, Michael Sayeau, Michael Sheringham, Iain Sinclair, David Trotter and Mark W. Turner.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Like "London: City of Disappearances" before it and "Towards Re-Enchantment" since, "Restless Cities" plays out the notion that a place, here specifically the city or cities, is a text, a series of signs and symbols constantly being narrated, edited and revised. With its different approaches and voices, its many habits within a habitat, the book conveys the various layers of city living. Presided over by Debord, Lefebvre and Benjamin to name just a few, "Restless Cities" suggests convincing heroes of modernity to compare with the flaneur: the convalescent for example; the daydreamer; the lodger. Perhaps the city's underside is missing somtimes. Most surprisingly, a piece on 'Zigzagging' in Washington makes no reference to the city's 2002 snipings, during which it was advised to walk in a particular fashion. The book, though, is mostly feverish like the city, at once familiar and unfamiliar. Chris Petit's chapter 'Bombing', Iain Sinclair's 'Sickening', Iain Borden's 'Driving' and Patrick Keiller's 'Imaging' warrant particular mention. "Restless Cities" is a book representative of an increasingly urban world.
7 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book after reading a review in the Guardian Weekly which was quite positive. When reading this collection of short, well, stories isn't the word - essays is probably a better descriptor - I felt that I was supposed to be doing a lot of thinking and that the essays were intended to broaden my mind but in the end I felt as if I was reading (and perhaps supposed to mark) a collection of submissions from final year English Literature majors (and some of whom would not graduate...). To be fair, there were some lines that made me reflect and reconsider my in-built perceptions but they were few and far between. Perhaps someone more literature-minded would like this but I gave it away after reading only the first fifth of the book.
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