[...] the flâneur [...] increasingly retreated away from the crowd, in an attempt to retain a certain individual control and self-order over the chaos of the city street. The moving perspective of the walking urban observer, physically within the city street, is exchanged in this act for the panoramic perspective of the static urban observer, […] in a position of superior detachment.

Parsons, Deborah L.: Streetwalking the metropolis : women, the city and modernity (2000)

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