Flânerie's Art and Measure of the Urbanizing Global.

There is plenty of evidence that a decidedly interdisciplinary incarnation of artists and scholars with urbanist inclinations has reinvigorated Charles Baudelaire's (1821–1867) ideas about aesthetically fruitful metropolitan wandering known asflânerie. What is truly innovative about today's iteration of Baudelairean flânerie is that it takes place in cities beyond its Parisian roots, particularly in the developing areas of East Asia and the Global South. Contemporary flânerie's representative forays move well past a nineteenth-century metropolitan genus or scale. Neo-Baudelairean flânerie may be staged in megacities, but it may also transpire along an urbanizing circuit rather than just in the cities themselves. Today the walking practice is often enlisted in the name of theurban imaginary, which makes sense of urbanization on the global stage based in a collective form of flânerie. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]