Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of  modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology  and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the  problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively  underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how  does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us?  In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural  concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements  that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How can  Benjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of the  present? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of  innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars  on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs,  the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and much  more. Engaged, interdisciplinary, bristling with insights, the essays in  this collection will constitute an indispensable supplement to the work of  Walter Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the obscurities of  our own present.

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