FUßGÄNGER:
"pedestrian"; "flâneur"; a "gentleman stroller of city streets"; "lounger"; "saunterer"; "loafer"; a "person who walks the city in order to experience it"; an "idle man-about-town"; a "complete philosophical way of living and thinking".
The walls are the desk against which he presses his notebooks; newsstands are his libraries and the terraces of cafés are the balconies from which he looks down on his household after his work is done. -Walter Benjamin,"The Flâneur"
BEN BRYNMOR FOWLER
Currently living in Ebisu, Tokyo. A lover of city living & city walking, cinema, music, fiction, currently writing a PhD on contemporary theatre in Britain and Germany, and developing an intense relationship with apple gadgets.
OTHER HOMES:
http://www.scoop.it/t/british-and-german-theatre-today
Instagram username: IBKHOV
darebinroad:
3rd September 1967, Stockholm.
The day Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right.
No problems here, everything’s running smooth as silk.
Haha! Yes, I remember when I was there last year we saw this huge clover leaf roundabout at Slussen, where they emphasised that it was so well designed it coped effortlessly with the changeover. I guess the drivers took a little more time to adjust.
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