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 literary collection of essays on the transforming city, from writers such as Iain Sinclair, Geoff Dyer, Marshall Berman and China Mieville. There will be reviews in broadsheets and art magazines.