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I chose to look at the comparative pattern of kinds of stores (retail vs. service vs. food) versus the presence of public spaces in each kind of shopping district. On Newbury Street, the stores were much more equally divided between food and retail,…

Copley Place/Prudential Center Malls

I think that the physical space and shape of the connecting malls makes the area seem much larger than it actually may be. This is because it is largely just one long hallway that connects through three…

The Prudential Shopping Mall was a very open-air atrium type of space with glass ceilings along the entirety of the mall’s length; this made the shopping experience feel very “open” and bright which I assume aids in helping customers spend more…

The first thing that I noticed when I entered Copley Place was how expensive everything looked. From the tiling, to the gilded ceiling, and the expensive brand-name stores that I had always associated with affluence (Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo,…

First, I just want to say that I'm really impressed by both prudential center and Newbury street. Those two shopping areas are so close to each other, yet so different in style. It's really a lot of fun.

Prudential center actually feel like a…

My sketches of Copley Place and Newbury Street reveal how these shopping spaces differ in terms of the types of activities they foster and their interaction with the surrounding environment. It’s clear that there is much more foot traffic on Newbury…

In my sketches of Newbury St and Copley Place and the Prudential Center Malls, I focused on two different themes that I noticed while walking through each. What immediately struck me in Copley Place and the Prudential Center Malls was a feeling of…

This assignment offers the chance to view two separate, but close, locations. They are both very unique from one another. While most may get lost in the Prudential/Copley shopping district, it would be very difficult to lose your way while traveling…

Newbury Street and the Prudential Center take different forms as commercial spaces due to the agency afforded in their constructions. The layout of the Prudential Center, being a designed center on a plot of land, could have taken really any form. As…

The primary difference I noticed between the indoor mall organization and the design of Newberry Street was the manner in which merchandise was featured from the windows. Throughout the malls, storefront displays appeared in windows that were much…