Fifty million text messages are sent every day in Britain. We use them to organise our lives, gossip and even flirt. And we take our mobile phones everywhere. They have become like books with an unlimited number of blank pages waiting to be filled. CityPoems uses text messages to write the biography of a city.

STADSchromosomen is CityPoems’ sister project in Antwerp,
Belgium, UNESCO's World Book Capital 2004. CityPoems and STADSchromosomen have 'twinned' matching locations in Leeds
and Antwerp, to let you use your mobile phone to be in two cities
at once. The STADSchromosomen page on this site tells you how.