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On Walking and Observing

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A list of books for flâneuses (and flâneurs)

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    Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity
    by Deborah L. Parsons

  • 2

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    Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
    by Lauren Elkin

  • 3

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    The Cost of Living
    by Deborah Levy

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    The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Studies in Contemporary German So
    by Susan Buck-Morss

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    The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
    by Nan Shepherd

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