Walter Benjamin would be proud: the Paris arcades as tourist destination. "The 19th-century shopping arcades of Paris, or passages couverts, are proof that anything modern, if spared the wrecking ball, can be stimulus for nostalgia. When these iron-columned, glass-covered structures shot up around the city in the 1820s and ’30s, they were visionary pieces of industrial-age technology, as whoop-de-do in their day as the warped titanium of Frank Gehry is for ours." NYTimes.
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