In order to form an interpretation of a phenomenal experience of the environment, the Subject must locate the “sense datum” in the operative field. This becomes the tool in perspective for measuring the relation of the Subject to the object in question in three-dimensional space with varying degrees of specificity. Because the Subject is always oriented to an object from a particular orientation, he can never achieve more than one perception of an object at multiple points of observation or awareness at one moment in time. The Subject’s body then, is both an object among objects as well as that which interacts overtly with them. Because the flaneur’s representation of Washington D.C. is able to be made up of fragmented experiences that formulate a compounded whole, the sites of organization within the city can be spread apart from each other. Each site will influence the Subject’s understanding of the other sites as well as the city fabric. What unites the sites are the Metropolitan Branch Trail and the City metro.
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