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If we are to believe Balzac, Huart, Hugo, and other fine observers of the city that Walter Benjamin called “the capital of the nineteenth century,” the flâneur was a typically Parisian figure. The flâneur cast his urbane gaze upon the city’s sidewalks, covered passageways, and boulevards, on the lookout for even the slightest spectacle that its streets could provide. This is where he was at home. Now that the city has been fractured into a diversity of suburbs traversed by impassable road and railway infrastructures, is flânerie still possible? It seems not….