(Image from Lilit café Bethesda M aryland. ) When an urban flâneur becomes weary of wandering the streets, s(he finds himself a café that offers the best vantage to observe the outside street and the inside activity. The flâneur always has in her/his possession, a book, a notebook and maybe a camera if s(he is an urban flâneur photographer. The flâneur makes reads furtively when the scene is boring or writes in a notebook of his/his observations, but is always watching the inside and outside activity. Sometimes, s(he is fortunate to overhear conversations. The following might be some of the observations of a flâneur while siting in a café: There is the couple looking at webpages on a laptop Another couple are holding hands across a table and talking quietly. A student who is reading a textbook in the corner. The old man who is circulating from table to table stricking up conversations with whoever will listen. ...
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Very similar to the waterfront in Buffalo NY - the Grain Elevators that the Bauhaus architecture movement marveled at as an example of the primacy of function in design.
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