The main purpose of compiling impressions from many different people from each city is for the very reason of making sure the researcher(s) have a diverse range of answers. If the researcher(s) gathers information from one group of people and never attempts to find other people who are different from the one group then the researcher(s) has a biased based option of the information about the subject they were trying to gather. It is important to gather a wide vary of information from many different people, because each person has a different experience and come from different backgrounds. For example, if the researcher(s) asks a blind man about the city the he lives or works, he will have a completely different response than if the researcher(s) asks the same question to a fully able bodied person. The blind man is more likely to describe the city with all its sounds and textures.
I was unsure of what a tomography was so I looked it up and came across a description of Martin H. Krieger’s Urban Tomographies. Krieger’s book is based on the idea of tomography as “a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives.” He uses urban tomography which “applies the same approach to the study of city life. To appreciate different aspects of a community, from infrastructure to work to worship…”
I believe that Krieger’s use of tomograhies and Lynch’s attempts of gather “public images” are very similar. Each person has a series of pictures that create a memory about a special place or experience, and each memory is different because each person experiences it in a different way. Each person has a different way of remembering his or her experience based on which five sense is strongest to him or her. Touch. Smell. Sight. Sound. Taste.
Works Cited
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14863.html
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