A flâneur in Westfield
An inspiring documentary by Patrick Keiller recently brought my attention to the work of Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin. “London”, which was shot over the course of 1992, is now a sort of social document. The fictional narrator ‘Robinson’ is our flâneur, in Baudelaire’s time a literary figure, and later urban explorer.
Perhaps the flâneur has been such a successful archetype because he has so many sides to him. A product of the city, there is no word in English that