{"id":623,"date":"2010-10-15T22:21:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T12:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-05-30T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T07:56:10","slug":"arcades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/10\/15\/arcades\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The arcades of Paris (les passages couverts<\/em>) were a shopping sensation in the 19th<\/sup> century and they are still famous, not least because Walter Benjamin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great unfinished work The Arcades Project (Das Passagen-Werk<\/em>) used a study of the arcades as a way of revealing insights into the realities of urban living.<\/p>\n

There were some 150 of these arcades built between 1800 and 1850. In their day they offered a treasure-trove to shoppers in Paris away from the weather and the dirty, unpaved streets. Now there are fewer than 20 left, most of them in run-down condition but still offering a variety of shopping and eating experiences. The pavements \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or floors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of the arcades carry the story of their decline (or sometimes their revival, as in the case of the almost-glamorous Galerie Vivienne).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In a stretch of the Passage des Panoramas that I photographed parts of the original paving had been replaced by asphalt, but there were some sections of flagstone and a few shops had remnants of the original coloured tiling \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a different pattern for each shop, sometimes with the name of the original business spelt out in tiles. Others had rectangles of synthetic carpet outside their premises.<\/p>\n

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The arcades of Paris (les passages couverts) were a shopping sensation in the 19th century and they are still famous, not least because Walter Benjamin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great unfinished work The Arcades Project (Das Passagen-Werk) used a study of the arcades as a way of revealing insights into the realities of urban living. There were some 150 <\/p>\n

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