City Flâneur

Have you ever strolled along our cityscape? Once in a while, I like to walk freely in the city in my leisure time without any companion, purpose, or even, without destination.


Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher, called travellers like this as ‘flâneur’. a French word with basic meanings of a stroller. Charles Baudelaire, a French poet in 19th century, is undoubtedly a major representative of flâneur. He transformed his steps and sights into prose in his book “Le Spleen de Paris” to record the process of urbanisation in Paris at that time.

Always bored by routine life? Why not stroll along and observe the city as a flâneur? Eventually, you will be able to discover the beauty of the city.