Even the title of his unfinished Arcades Project comes from his affection for covered shopping streets.
The Arcades Project has been posthumously edited and published in many languages as a collection of unfinished reflections.
The Arcades Project, as it stands, is often claimed to be a forerunner to postmodernism.
We will be feasting on Walter Benjamin's "Arcades Project" for years to come.
Just published in its first full English-language edition, "The Arcades Project" should also win readers with broader tastes.
What became "The Arcades Project" started out as a newspaper article.
But the most important direct influence on "The Arcades Project" came from Surrealism.
"The Arcades Project," itself a ruin, has served a similar function for writers today.
Could these contradictions be the rocks on which "The Arcades Project" crashed?
The Arcades Project was published for the first time in 1982, and is over a thousand pages long.