Benjamin’s Arcades Project was designed as six named chapters pairing figures with urban sites
Evidence
Six chapters were planned in Benjamin’s prospectus for the Passagen-Werk:
Fourier or the Arcades';Daguerre or the Dioramas’;Grandville or the World Exhibitions';Louis-Philippe or the Interior’;Baudelaire or the Streets of Paris';Haussmann or the Barricades’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 228
Categorization
- XREF: Reference-level structural outline that any account of the Passagen-Werk must anchor to. — connects to: The Baudelaire book was conceived as a miniature model of the Arcades Project
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Baudelaire book was conceived as a miniature model of the Arcades Project