Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology.