Strolling as a pastime suited the grand European capitals, but in business-bustling New York the idea seemed preposterous. Gradually, however, New York newspapers began to publish comical and gritty accounts of daily street life in "the London of America." By the 1840s, wrote Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace in "Gotham," their history of New York, the city had become "fully flâneurable."

once a flaneur, always a flaneur. and what makes you think that Newcastle is not flaneurable? :)

for anyone who has the opportunity to do so, montreal is extremely flaneurable.

New Yorkers loved these European flaneurs. They bought American reprints of Egan's Life in London, perused city sketches in the London Quarterly and Edinburgh Review, and devoured Dickens. Their own city, alas, was not deemed flaneurable. Lacking the spectacular variety of European metropoles, it didn't seem worth perambulating for publication.