The contemporary flâneur bogotano: The issue about stroll in commercial spaces of bogota

Abstract

The flâneur is known as a Parisian urban figure in the XIX century that embodied certain lifestyle and a certain relation with the city, especially with commercial spaces in both transient and observer ways. Nowadays, the city has changed its dynamics and is consid­ered as a consumption space more than a stroller space, so with the birth of mass culture and consumer society, the flâneur was considered extinct. This article seeks to demon­strate how the figure of flâneur is still valid and explains properly the relation between pedestrian and commercial spaces, this time in a Latin-American city: Bogotá. Two spe­cific cases, the strolling in the passages outdoor and consume in malls are then analyzed. Finally, there’s a reflection about the stroller’s experience in the contemporary city.