8 10 93 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/60b853ef7def0eade21b4860ab2ba4f3.jpeg 89ebfd5c0570f76badf47a4787a557ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Griffin Description An account of the resource Attempting to reproduce a map of campus from memory, I realized that my knowledge was very limited to a small triangle bounded roughly by Dunster, the Yard, and the intersection of JFK and Mt. Auburn. My ability to map anything on the "other" side of JFK or anything past Quincy Street was basically non-existent, despite going to both places with some frequency. I was also surprised at the extent to which my memory of the Yard and the areas bounding Quincy Street were significantly better even than my memory of places near my own house. I also seem to have made the Quad bigger and closer than it actually is. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/6621ee1a0003a43e1c2639417f77222b.jpg d16386fc6ac19a54f8adbfc94a4d9bc8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Annie Goldsmith Description An account of the resource Overall, my map is pretty inaccurate; however, my portrayal of the Harvard Yard and Tercentenary Theatre areas is decent. I think this is because, as a freshman, I spend most of my time around the Yard so that region has become the most meaningful to me. It is also what I see on a daily basis, so I know my way around a bit better. The major flaw of my map is that I made the Yard too close to the Charles River. I think part of this was simply miscalculation while drawing, but another part is that I do not venture to the upperclassmen houses as much so I do not really know what is around there. When I do go to the river, I usually do so on runs so that makes the distance feel shorter than it is. Additionally, I made the river very large since, as I do not cross it that much, it feels like a strong barrier between Harvard and Boston. I also did not know the arrangement of streets in Harvard Square because I walk everywhere. Overall, the way my map turned out makes sense to me. It is accurate in the places I frequent, and very off in unfamiliar areas. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/a6335273fa77b7d013f553db8a5b595f.jpg 9b4fee66c9758bfec88329dcd190a16c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gaby Giotti Description An account of the resource One interesting thing I noted was that I completely turned the map’s orientation. That is, most maps illustrate the river to law school (down-up). For some reason, it was easier to envision the square and the Yard in that way. There was a clear poor sense of spacing in the areas I don’t often walk to. For example, the Dunster-Mather and Quad areas are very disproportionate. They are 1) too close to the yard and 2) either smaller or larger in comparison to other houses. Likewise, for the area past Lowell Lecture Hall—where I usually have class—there is a lot of free space and random buildings. Besides that, my map is fairly accurate to the original rendition. It captures most major buildings and provides a good sense of the pathways in play. These differences in proportion might suggest that we remember and are able to identity common spaces. It makes sense that we are more likely to mentally map out the yards and buildings we walk through every day. In addition, we are probably not very good at identifying streets that are not set on a grid pattern https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/b53f774542dfba801be9d95ec86765c1.jpg ff82fb3ffe8b32d05e4d6ee86df21ff7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Samuel Frum Description An account of the resource For my map I started by drawing what to me is Cambridge’s defining feature, the Charles River. From there I added the bridges which I row under every day, and the intersection of JFK and Memorial (the arteries I use to walk to practice). I added Mt. Auburn to the north, and then Mass Ave…the rest of the streets were a bit of a struggle. I began to fill in the locations of the coffee shops I frequent, Peet’s, Dunkin, Starbucks. I can easily imagine the surroundings of these locations. Restaurants next, Cambridge 1, Border Café, Beat Hotel, Felipes. I have spent much time looking out the windows of these establishments. Next I filled in what it outside my window, Winthrop House and the MAC quad. It was harder for me to remember the exact layout of the yard and Mass ave, my home base of three years ago. Additionally, the area west of the Charles Hotel, to which I rarely venture was difficult to map out. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/c6128fe08ae1b288519356c9feb9816e.jpg 5c28f5bfc4642b72670546a39a7e351f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Erik Fliegauf Description An account of the resource This sketch was much more difficult than I expected. However, I was satisfied with my final product. I was aware of some potential errors at the outset. For example, I knew that I would underestimate the distance from the Yard to Radcliffe Quad. Of course, I was more correct about familiar places, like around my dorm (Hurlbut), the Yard, and my tour route. A history as a pre-freshman obsessed with both Harvard and maps more generally gave me an advantage. Even so, there were certain mistakes that I was surprised and even embarrassed by. I knew no buildings a block east of my dorm, since I only drive past that area. I got Cambridge Common Park completely wrong, as it doesn’t border the Yard nearly as far as I thought. The main takeaway was that even if you know an area well, and can navigate perfectly while in that space, it is incredibly hard to construct a bird’s eye view of that place. We remember things in two-dimensional visual snapshots, not in three-dimensional space. The “special features” had to do with people, movement, and activity, as my experience with Harvard focuses on the distinction between academics/work (and the associated places) and personal life. I also wanted to explore the distribution of tourists and students, as their interactions with space are completely different. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/a0f1d871d5892f5b84c3c5f91a4fe3cb.jpg 8bde9827dada9abbe211d1d804f3869e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicole Flanary Description An account of the resource In completing the assignment, it’s obvious that the areas with which we are most familiar come to us easier and larger than others. As a person that both lives in the Quad and completed the majority of studies in the engineering school, my map shows relatively accurately the walk between the yard and the Quad (down Garden street) in terms of spacing and landmarks but the area below the Square by the river houses and athletic fields, is spaced much too tight and has significantly less detail in terms of known buildings. It’s also clear in how I distributed space between these two areas, with the walk to the Quad and Porter Square taking up far more space than other parts. I imagine those with close ties to, or with more exposure to, these areas would have the opposite perspective. It’s also interesting in Harvard Square that my map has little detail in the Square – I think that reflects my own perspective of the Square in that it is a litany of shops but I do not really frequent any of them nor could I point out any specific ones and their locations. While I am familiar with the relative locations, orders and lengths somewhat of the streets, the details on these streets are hard for me to conjure from memory. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/fc6f0f0ca871cd6a611ad98ee2a2cdbf.jpg 2f9460d427d1df1eb58480ecd7158021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Al Fernandez Description An account of the resource After a couple of drafts in which I made several buildings (namely, Annenberg, the Mac Gym, and Widener) the center of my sketch, I realized that I was having problems with the proportion of the streets. Afterwards, I came to rely on the streets as the most accurate outline for the sketch. The problem with this approach, however, is that Cambridge seems to be a city not really organized by streets. There's no other way to explain the sudden appearance of Oxford Street, the short-lived existence of South Street, and the strange looping shape that Massachusetts Avenue takes. On top of that, I started having problems with accurately representing the slant of the streets, often keeping something straight when the street was, slowly but surely, curving one way or another. Something that I realized as I was drawing, which was then confirmed when I looked at an actual map, was just how many green spaces there are around campus. Many of these spaces, however, are crowded and jammed in, so that, while you know they are there, they don't really contribute in any significant way to the landscape of the city. I think that, in order for these green spaces to really show up in our perception of a city, they need to border a well-frequented street. Most of Harvard's green spaces, however, seem to be surrounded by either dormitories or lecture halls. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/71cc4ae44de96e6918ec635b6ad43777.pdf ecfc1bd3bee0f781fe697e7dacef138e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tania Fabo Description An account of the resource For my map, I decided to focus on Harvard as not simply a campus, but rather as a community. I attempted to do this by depicting the various populations that are represented at Harvard: not just the students, faculty, and other Harvard affiliates, but also the Cambridge community residents, the homeless population around Harvard, and the tourists. Harvard has effectively taken over the Square and surrounding areas, from the upperclassman houses all around, to the random affiliate buildings scattered about the Cambridge area. Thus, Harvard has also had to “deal” with the effect of taking over a space. After looking at the map, I believe that Harvard has struck a good balance between being an open campus and an academic institution. There are a number of spaces in which Harvard has allowed/welcomed the presence on non-Harvard affiliates, from the Science Center Plaza as a major tourist site, to the Smith Campus Center as a restaurant hub for local residents, and the Harvard student-run youth homeless shelter. But while Harvard students co-inhabit the space with Cambridge residents, the homeless, and tourists, there is still a degree of safety found in the Harvard-only spaces. Notice how the non-Harvard affiliates are always on the outskirts. Rarely inside any of the buildings, never inside the upperclassman house courtyards. This allows for what one might call “selective interaction”: we can acknowledge your presence when we want to, but at the end of the day, we will always have our own spaces to return to. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/664cb04a6c2efc9c83d5764093c0d88c.jpeg 01b74c8ecdede8f47dd7b2c4fe317d44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sonja Eliason Description An account of the resource Looking at a map after attempting to sketch Harvard, I realize that Cambridge is not at all the grid system I ended up drawing. Trying to visualize Cambridge in my mind led to a very organized structure, but looking at a map shows all the curves and edges and somewhat sprawling nature of the city. Cambridge is definitely not the kind of grid that Jefferson would have designed, but conceptualizing a grid is much easier than the disorganized reality. Maybe this suggests something about the grid system and its appeal to people’s desire to have an orderly conception of their city, a certain predictability that makes it easier to manage. Perhaps it also says something about people’s search for patterns and their own perception of a city with which they are familiar. I definitely underestimated the size of Harvard Yard and overestimated the size of the park. It’s possible that my perception of size was affected by the relative importance of certain places in my day-to-day life, or what I prioritized. The places I had the most trouble visualizing were those that I didn’t frequent or that were unrelated to Harvard. I knew if specific sections were residential or storefronts, and having that organized within the city was helpful, but if I didn’t frequent the area I had no idea how to conceptualize specifics. If I were to redo my sketch, I think I would start with making the large geometric centers of Cambridge, and then fill in around them, since that is the way the city appears to be organized. The Yard is a large square, then there’s the large triangle of the park, and the smaller triangle of Brattle Square. If I had started with organizing those first, I think I would have had an easier time; my mistake was trying to draw streets and connections without giving myself easy landmarks, so nothing is in correct proportions. The streets all seem to move out in a fan formation from the intersection of those three major geometric locations, so I could have more easily produced the city from starting at the center and then moving progressively outwards. It’s very difficult to conceptualize a bird’s-eye-view of a city that I am used to seeing only from walking. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/d7cd4cd0b1c4fc777c19a41783a93578.jpg 26fb3ef700016323c9ba20af9d60f42e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SKETCH 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jackie Delmuto