This book traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city‎.‎ How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ideas of modern urban life‎?‎ How does film intervene with what is erased or retained from the existing urban fabric‎?‎ What are the possibilities and limits of contemporary utopic visions built into urban form‎?‎ How does film itself work as a utopic space‎?‎ How has the space of the cinema created a vibrant public space over the course of last century‎,‎ and what is its future‎?‎ These are some of the questions tackled in this book‎.‎ Drawing on films as diverse as Man with a Movie Camera‎,‎ Bicycle Thieves‎,‎ Dogville‎,‎ Safe‎,‎ Los Angeles Plays Itself‎,‎ Chungking Express and The Circle‎,‎ the book identifies and analyses the major debates about the crucial historical relationship between film and the city to consider existing and future possibilities‎.‎