In their “A Walk on the Wild Side: Urban Ethnography Meets the Flâneur”, Jenks and Neves remind “not forget the expressed intention of producing a description, a comment, the intention of expressing feelings”. Walking into the “Iliou Melathron”, a neoclassic building created by a german architect Ziller, located in the center of Athens in Panepistimiou …
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Omonoia & Stadiou Flânerie
by Marion Polemis One of the rare cases where I remember myself practicing flânerie is when I am on a holiday as a tourist, finding everything new and exciting. This mostly happens when I am in a foreign country, experiencing new tastes, smells but also observing different architectural monuments and art. But what about flânerie in a …