81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
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The Metropolis of Vienna
Benjamin's nostalgic about in the arcades right you're kind of like a guy swarming around well no but i think here the arcades it's because they're past it yeah yeah. He has a kind of a vision of what the good life would be in afford the kind of the metropolitan man is a sort of description of walking around walking around the city yes these describes the uninterrupted vista of a main thoroughfare flanked by fine stores displaying the artistic products of the city and of the country.
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