Writers, thinkers, artists and photographers have long influenced each other's practice and nowhere is this more visible than in the context of the metropolis. Restless Cities is a collection of writings by eminent authors including Iain Sinclair and Geoff Dyer, which attempts to trace the idiosyncratic character of the modern city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis.

Join editors Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart, as they discuss the book and its themes in this fascinating talk, repeated due to popular demand after a packed-out event in July 2011. Photographers John Angerson and Peter Dench will also join the conversation, revealing how notions of psychogeography and philosophies of urban life have influenced their work on the streets of London.

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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." Financial Times
 

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