1 10 93 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/5cdf34b27891e1f1aea7a706135cf7cd.pdf 31e087c33d7503595d3a69f59ec0fc76 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 Adam Oh Description An account of the resource After having finished my sketch, I compared what I drew with some of the Google map renderings and realized a significant difference. Where I decided to notate things so that it was easier for me to draw, google maps shows much more detail. However, I have decided to include topological features to my map showing where there are slopes in the streets and the places most traveled by pedestrians and students. Google maps fails to include these features because their rendering is much more informational. Similarly, both my sketch and Google maps include the directionality of the traffic which I found to be pretty cool. The difference in both renderings could be due to the humans’ tendency to remember things based on landmarks. When I was drawing, I constantly tried to relate things to certain landmarks that I remembered seeing as I was walking. I also associated certain locations to certain memories so my renderings include much more of what I perceived as I walked through the square. In the end, our renderings achieve the same goal of showing the idea of what the square looks like, but they are represented in different perspectives. 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/ebd460f4c9e9768aa5437a7d5356ad67.jpg f516144f942068f3a107caf83db81c4b 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 Alma Lafler Description An account of the resource My map is accurate enough that it could help a tourist get around the included parts of town with little trouble. I commute around campus by bicycle and am very familiar with the road network around Harvard, which would likely make it different from a map drawn by someone who, for example, takes the bus and doesn’t need to pay attention to the roads between their origin and their destination. On top of this, I grew up in Cambridge, and was able to bring other personal landmarks to mind when I was thinking about the shape of the campus. I found that it was easiest to produce a more accurate representation of areas I couldn’t initially remember by envisioning myself on the street in a familiar area, and then imagining myself moving to the misremembered area. The shape and elements in the map are noticeably more accurate in the places I spend a lot of time or travel through every day than in the areas I only go occasionally. Interestingly, there are some buildings that extend back much farther from the street than I drew, which I didn’t realize because I have not been in them, and have only seen them from the street. I drew my map such that you could draw grid-like lines going North-South and East-West along the major roads, but in reality, Cambridge appears “tilted” to the northeast – something I knew but didn’t feel comfortable enough to accurately incorporate. I hadn’t thought this about much before, but the city seems to be aligned with the orientation of the river rather than the cardinal directions, which suggests to me that perhaps Cambridge was originally settled along the Charles, with homes slowly radiating out from that boundary. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/c4f437f32466481f6a81c68a4e08cc4a.JPG 81fbec030d81c1289a9a0f43d4367897 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 Anne Cheng Description An account of the resource When drawing Harvard’s campus (from Quad to athletic facilities) from memory, I mapped out the common Harvard shuttle routes and differentiated the buildings from undergraduate living spaces, classrooms, and businesses. After looking at my colored sketch from a distance, I realize that I am most familiar with the areas contained within the shuttle routes. I live in the Quad and walk to golf practice very often, so I feel like I have an unusually good sense of these relatively distant parts of campus. After comparing my own sketch to Google Maps, I am most surprised by how little I remember of walkways cutting through the yard and the streets that go through upperclassmen housing. My sketch also reminds me of a somewhat futile representation of Jeffersonian planning, where the Yard is the most central public space and all other surroundings are individual gardens in a somewhat grid-like format. In the vicinity of the Yard are buildings where classes take place, buildings where business occurs, and buildings where upperclassmen can live. It is interesting to see how living, learning, and business spaces all merge together at Massachusetts Avenue. I also found it interesting to find that streets that divide different sections (i.e. living, learning, business) tend to be bigger. 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/f4f9647cbbe6f324d7bc3ba9c1f804cd.pdf d64cae6f1a2bf550cda4dfe7480c8f4c 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 Carl Rogers Description An account of the resource I think that, just from looking at this sketch, it would be pretty obvious to any Harvard student where I live, at least to an extent. I began my sketch starting with my house, Dunster, in the bottom right corner, and planned to work northwest-ward as I went. Unfortunately, after getting caught up in the intricacies of the streets and other River houses, I realized too late that my scale was off, and that there was no way I would be able to include both the Yard and the Quad in my sketch. I’m fairly pleased with how I represented the River Houses (apart from Adams…which was affected by my confusion regarding “that one slanted street”—I couldn’t remember how Bow and Arrow street fit into the overall picture). My focus son the Houses, though, left a lot of the interesting parts of Harvard Square unsketched, and didn’t give me the chance to dig into my memory to see how much I could remember of my one year in the Yard. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f07572de8d515b7e7a01a9b96e6c2527.pdf 724998bc346fa08a05f98cb07ca8e994 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 Chad Benoit Description An account of the resource Harvard Square is a really interesting place for our first sketch assignment because it’s an area that I spend so much time in on a daily basis, but I have never given much thought to it from a design perspective. Harvard Square is really interesting to me because it is the confluence of so many different types of movement. This movement is what I focused on for my sketch. For me, the center of Harvard Square is the T station because it is found at the boundary between Harvard proper (Harvard Yard) and the businesses of Harvard Square. It also serves as the main connection point between Harvard and Boston, and it’s the first thing that many people see when they come to Harvard Square for the first time. In my sketch I tried to indicate some of the defining buildings of the immediate area, but more importantly, I indicated the train (red), bus (yellow), traffic (blue), and pedestrian (purple dots) routes. I think it is really interesting how the Square is definitely dominated by busy pedestrian routes. I also think that like many places in Boston, it is interesting to think about how Harvard Square is where architecture that is centuries old meets very modern buildings. Also, a sketch of Harvard Square is very brick red because so many things are made out of brick (sidewalks, buildings). For the next sketch, I definitely want to focus more on the “diagraming” aspect of it because that is what is most interesting to me, and because drawing is not my strong suit. When doing this from memory, I definitely got the basic components, but I missed out on a lot of the architectural details of the buildings and some of the subterranean features (for example, there are bus routes that run through a tunnel under Harvard Square as well). https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/296a64f727d2564d3d34ea9e89118f6b.pdf 956dfcd61234709a1f55f3a49ca1b482 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 Chiyoung Kim Description An account of the resource Because this is a path that I walk often, the map wasn't too different from online maps. There were, however, some noticeable distortions and some proportions were off as well. However, my map is different in that the positioning of many of the landmarks along my path were based on relative positioning rather than definite positioning along the street. However, I think this shows how we look at the city on our daily walks along paths we walk often. We walk along our paths knowing the order of landmarks to our final destination, but we might not know the absolute distances between each. This makes it so that the maps we make come out looking slightly like caricatures rather than a map from Google Maps – we know around where everything is located but not where everything is exactly. The city is a collection of landmarks we know of and have in a relatively ordered state in our minds. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/92030350be0563c5a3a9e95ae582c735.png e2a443285b8c2e54540cc756023d1268 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 Claire Collins Description An account of the resource Two major things strike me about the official mapping of Harvard square. First and foremost is the level of detail; every path through the yard, every street and alley, every one of the endless engineering and science labs behind the science center is included, along with the names of all these places. The second major thing is the indifference with which it is all presented. The residential neighborhoods to the west of Harvard Yard, the Houses along the river, Cambridge Rindge & Latin are all depicted with the same level of detail, their impact on the place solely relative to the amount of space they take up. In contrast, I could not even attempt the residential streets just off campus, and, for the sake of clarity, I only noted the buildings that I most often visit. The angle of the river is a little bit off, Mt Auburn Street is a little cut off to the West of JFK, and everything should be oriented a bit more towards to the north east. This last note really speaks to the relativity with which we orient ourselves in space. I know that the yard is north of the river, and thus that Mather to the east, Eliot to the west, but I could not point due north with any particular degree of accuracy. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/c2d34a639c465349869fbe30a548810b.jpeg a312c78d49700ad997fbd98a9f053317 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/. Description An account of the resource Urban design still remains a foreign concept: space, dimensions, structure can easily clutter the mind when drawing our fondest roads from memory. Despite the initial hesitation and frequent erasure marks, I believe the product that came out captured the spatial distribution of Harvard very closely. The map is not completely accurate, by no stretch of the imagination, but it really does encapsulate the most important landmarks of Harvard while respecting the spatial distribution of the urban/suburban settlement. Right off the back, the biggest difference I see is that of perception, meaning that in comparison to the actual map, my map elongates certain bottom portions. This is most apparent with Winthrop House which is my home, as well as the point of origin for the sketch. Winthrop is by no means the same size as the Science Center but the way I went about designing this map started from home and worked its way abroad causing certain levels of exaggeration in size for Winthrop (but not substantial). Furthermore, my map has very accurate points at times, the Yard, the walk to the Quad, the houses along the river symbolize places that matched up almost identically to the real map. This is most likely do to these places being centers of my life, and thus my memories that I can perfectly sketch them out. It seems that these three foci served as the triangle of urban planning for my mental map in which the great challenge was filling the in-between space and the peripheries with landmarks that I could easily recognize. As compared to a flat map, my map makes use of height in buildings that are stereotypically tall for the rather low (five floors or below) heights of the buildings in the area. The way it became manifested in the map was in the form of visual stylizations where a level of three-dimensionality was added to buildings like Memorial Hall, Annenberg Hall, The Smith Campus Center, the Leveret Towers among others. As a final note, somewhere that the two maps do align is with the demarcation of parks, green with the Google Maps and shaded in with my map. Parks and green spaces are extremely important in these areas, particularly considering the masses of brick buildings that align the streets, so there is extra attention placed on them for this unique purpose. Title A name given to the resource Daniel Montoya