The Arcades Project

The Arcades Project
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1100
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674043268

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.