Flaneur: A Modern Urban Figure
Flaneur, is one of the important figures in modern city life. A social type that exists with modernity. He is in the midst of modern relationships, urban society and consumer society.He is in the places like avenue, street, boulevard, passage, showcase. He is familiar with the objects and in contact...
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| Language: | English |
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Sakarya University
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/17757 |
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| Summary: | Flaneur, is one of the important figures in modern city life. A social type that exists with modernity. He is in the midst of modern relationships, urban society and consumer society.He is in the places like avenue, street, boulevard, passage, showcase. He is familiar with the objects and in contact with the people in these creations. He has associated with the crowd, disappeared in the crowd, fed by the crowd. But he is alone on his own; because at the same time, he knits his own individual world. He has the self-confident and is the one whocritizes society. Although he is fed by crowd, he could turn back to it. Flaneur which is one of the most interesting types of modern life, he is a remarkable type of modern urban life to discuss and speak about the urban problems such as, rituals, consumption, leisure, urbanism. In terms of the cultural implications of modern urban life, it is one that must be followed. |
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| ISSN: | 1306-7885 |