Weekly Flâneur: City Seen

A new feature I'd like to play with: Weekly city/town/urban scenes to fully capture the experience of a flâneur. Since I tend to veer away from the titular promise of this blog to dive into political discourse (and make no mistake about it -- feminism is personal and political), a weekly photo from different places in the world may add some balance. Or at least distract from the constant barrage of Bowie.

As Susan Sontag says of photography being the tool of those who walk the world over: "The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.'"

If you have a photograph you'd like to see here, please email me at flaneurinthecity at gmail dot com.

This week (click to enlarge photo):

Rainy sidewalk outside The Cambridge Pub, Soho, 93 Charing Cross Road, London.