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Although Benjamin wrote about Naples (1924), Moscow (1927), and Marseilles (1928), and Berlin, his work on Paris is the most significant and influential, for what it amassed about the city and theories of the city, and from the provocations it gives to future research. The Arcades Project may fairly be called the single most significant twentieth century document on the city, essential for urban literary studies. Benjamin was engaged with it from 1927 until he had to leave the city and took his life on the Spanish border in 1940. It was inseparable too from work on Baudelaire, which was published separately.
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Tambling, J. (2018). Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_49-1
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