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1 Spaces of urbanity. From the village square to the boulevard Göran Sonesson Dept. of semiotics Lund University The meaning of the city is not to be found in its buildings. Or, at least, it is not exhausted  by them. It is not in the interstices, nor even exclusively in the passage-ways leading up to famous landmarks. It is also elsewhere. And yet it is no doubt spatially grounded. The poetry and prose of the boulevard In seventies, when I went to Paris to start my studies in semiotics, there was a kind of fascination which rapidly grew stronger upon me than semiotics itself: the city. And for a person coming from one of the small big cities of Sweden, the city meant: the bigger city. For in the world created by urbanism, there is always a city standing to each given city as the latter stands to the countryside. Except, to be sure, for those cities highest on the scale. Paris, of course, it not just any city. If, in Walter Benjamin’s words, it was the capital of the 19 th century, some remnants of that aura remained in the following century, and may linger on still. My experience of Paris in the seventies depended on that system of boulevards and big compartment stores whose development inspired Benjamin’s well-known descript ion. The city was no longer to be found in the passages, chanted by Baudelaire, but it was still present on the boulevards, as of course in the cafés having their fronts on the street. 1 Every casual stroll along the boulevards seemed a fantastic adventure, a passage through the entire world with its multifarious possibilitie s. The fascination of the boulevards did not result only from that which could be found on them, but also from the possibilities to which they opened up, which could be, quite concretely and spatially, the little café on the corner, or, in terms of activities, the trajectories into the body of the city afforded by the side streets, or, more interpersonall y, the prospects for a change meeting. Part of the fascination emanated from the mixture of peoples and cultures that could be found there. In the streets, on the great boulevards, and at the courses and seminaries that I frequented, you could meet people from all parts of the world (or so it

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