Pedestrian crossings: urban movement in early nineteenth-century periodicals

Charles Baudelaire states flâneurs are able 'to see the world, to be at the center of the world, yet to remain hidden from the world' (1986:9). In his discussion of Baudelaire's poetry from mid-nineteenth-century Paris, Walter Benjamin asserts the flâneur 'goes his leisurely way' (2006a:85) along the arcades, unscathed by the crowd.…