8 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/8864a37477dbea962c47e94155dfdf2c.JPG 087996bc477fd43681c01f7988ebb1ed https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/029a45d640ce44ee3f68b11a15ce87c2.JPG dbd9c9907702396deafb7c170f308f96 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 2 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 Rachel Stromberg Description An account of the resource Both Copley Mall and Newbury Street may be large commercial shopping centers open to the public, but that is where their similarities end. Copley Mall is a mazelike network of hallways and escalators. For the most part, it is dark and close; visitors are closed in on both sides by stores and the occasional restaurant. There are few windows, immersing the visitor in the shopping experience. Although the mall is dotted with occasional open spaces featuring skylights, potted plants, and benches, the space is, by and large, designed for movement through and up. I tried to convey that emphasis through my sketch, focusing on escalators and stairs and the angular, dynamic lines that dominate the space. Newbury Street, on the other hand, is a mall in open air. Visiting right after having spent time in the mall with its antiseptic, mildly claustrophobic feel, I was struck by how natural the area felt by comparison. Of course, the space still manipulates its visitors to move through it in specific ways (namely, up and down the main street), but its being outside was, to me, the most noticeable feature of the area. For this reason, I decided to make one of the trees along the street the centerpiece of my sketch, with the shops that line the street appearing only indistinctly in the background. The other main feature of the sketch is the line of the street bisecting the page, which dictates the motion of the people and cars passing through. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/ecc3c708262fae79b0d4ddf211e81867.jpg 338fdc7c30aeba9ff49a309d21c49e8b https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/86ee372132bf5dc12b5c40a5e0929825.jpg ce3f272187a19c661262ed372081e2ee 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 2 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 Lauren Stone Description An account of the resource Copley Place and the Prudential Center were most similar in their spatial layouts, and Newbury Street tries to copy that, however only Copley Place features a space for reflection and integrates nature. Both Copley and the Prudential Center feature a relatively bright, well-lit, open layout. The side bays, which feature mostly shops, converge on what seems to be a central area, as I depict in my sketches. However, at Copley, this area represents a respite from the commercial activity taking place in the side walkways. Plants line it, and there is a fountain that restfully roars. The raised edges of this area separate it from the surrounding shopping wings and signify that a different type of activity occurs here. The geometric, bright red floor patterns, coupled with the sounds of the water foster pensiveness here, and there are benches upon which to think and socialize. In contrast, in the Boylston Arcade, there are no benches nor significant greenery and instead, the area features only shopping booths. There is less of a sense of “zen” due to the absence of natural elements. This space is bare and almost washed out due to a larger dome — and has simple, white floor patterns. There is no elevation, and this central space features shopping signs. It therefore does not distinguish itself from shopping activity. Overall, the two locations are tied together in a sort of trapezoid shape — through elevation from the street and the central walkway connecting them, indicating that they are similar in the types of activities that take place — but they offer some different opportunities for activity. Newbury Street certainly mimics some of the shared qualities, namely convergence of different side roads into a central, more bustling area. However, it is more similar to the Prudential in its focus on commercial activities. Its buildings feature repetitive structures and there are very few places to sit (unless you are dining). There is some vegetation, but the more prominent, numerous shops seem to overpower it. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/b4f84b5d2409b71ed161ad474918cd0f.JPG 393d53382f720c59a7d469dcf41c41f6 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/eb080b4a66d14faa6623426c14538213.JPG 13c1f527dd36a8e29c7fd773761be2c9 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 2 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 Jacob Steinberg-Otter Description An account of the resource After visiting both the Prudential Center and Newbury Street, a strong irony in their respective designs stood out to me, and it manifested in particular in degrees of naturalness and of symmetry/uniformity in the designs. The irony was that the Prudential Center, the indoor environment that was centrally designed, seemed more natural and less symmetrical/uniform, while Newbury Street, the outdoor thoroughfare that did not develop under centralized planning, was less natural and more symmetrical/uniform. In the Pru, I was struck by the natural elements the designers built into the building, especially in the Huntington Arcade, which is the area I illustrated. Up above, the rafters were large skylight window pains that allowed mid-morning to afternoon and early evening sun to shine through. Along the center of the arcade, there were large dirt-filled areas in which trees and bushes rested – I counted around a dozen or so, and all held numerous plants. While Newbury street was lined with trees on both sides, they did not compare to the dense, green foliage that occupied the Huntington Arcade. Plus, the effect that being outside had on the degree of naturalness of the environment of Newbury Street was, in my opinion, easily dissipated and overcome by the appearance and smell of exhaust fumes and pollution. Additionally, in the Pru, the Huntington Arcade had a windy, inconsistent pattern. The skylights on one half of the ceiling did not have uniform patterns, instead curving to make way for an adjacent building structure. The pathway with plants was interspersed with kiosks in no consistent form. Meanwhile, the buildings on Newbury Street exhibited a remarkable degree of likeness: each had a set of stairs leading up to a door, large bay windows, triangular brick structures with windows towards the top, half-hexagon brick protrusions with windows, etc. I can imagine a reason why the designers of the Pru created a natural environment – it seems like they intended that arcade to be a place where people came to sit and relax, as exhibited by the numerous benches where I noticed people sitting and even the occasional passerby walking his/her dog. However, I don’t quite understand why the Pru designers made a varying pattern to the progression of the arcade, and I’m struck by how uniform the design of the buildings were along Newbury Street. The reasons that the centrally designed structure was not uniform and that the non-centrally designed street was do not seem readily obvious to me. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/0528a3003c1888dd8d08fa620865cfc9.jpg 29298e7b6583e27eb89a7c2cdabda56a 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 2 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 Liana Spiro Description An account of the resource To me, a juxtaposition of Boston’s Newbury Street and Prudential Center ties in very neatly with the comparisons we’ve been drawing between urban and suburban landscapes. Obviously both sites exist within an urban environment. But the slight variations in the environments and experiences each commercial space offers align extremely well with what I see to be the main distinguishing factors of residential spaces across the nation. Newbury Street, in the very fact of its existence, highlights spontaneity and change. The first few floors, and often basement, of every building on the strip has clearly been repurposed from an old, residential brownstone into a high-end commercial storefront. Most spaces are relatively small, storefronts are stacked on top of each other; often businesses with very different target demographics share a facade. People are shopping, but adults also stroll leisurely. And I imagine the space above storefronts is still residential. Newbury Street highlights all the qualities people treasure about urban life - the miscellany, the history, the compact spaces, and the charming character. If Newbury Street emphasizes the city, then the Prudential Center displays everything valued in suburban life. Everything appears to have been planned and built at the same time. Storefronts are clearly thoughtfully organized and placed - useful and practical, but perhaps overly intentional. There aren’t any local, unique boutiques or coffee shops. Everything is a national chain, and everything takes up a lot more space. Teenage girls do the strolling here, perhaps because it feels more enclosed, therefore more safe. There are still plants, but many are species not native to New England. It’s all very practical, functional, and modern. But to me it seems fake. However! The Free People in the Prudential Center has a larger sale section than the Newbury Street location. So that’s a pretty big plus. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/06f7fda794eebf730c808e40b26fdbe0.JPG d9f101bca8bd545074c4f1883099a730 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/642d53f55cbe5f2ea4b29f9271ee5f07.JPG a7fcc02ac05165319f0f720cbfb0f972 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 2 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 Linda Song Description An account of the resource The theme that I focused on in my sketches and observations was the notion of inside/outside. I found that the two spaces each conveyed a sense of an interior and exterior, blurring the lines between what is actually outside or inside throughout the shopping experience. Upon observations, the distinction between the two became less clear in the Copley/Prudential Shopping Center as indoor gardens or facades gave the illusion that the corridors and hallways were actually exteriors rather than interiors in the shopping complex. In comparison, the interior/exterior dichotomy was much more direct in Newbury Street as the "hallways" of the shopping center were in actuality the sidewalks of the street itself -- the only interior in Newbury was the actual interior of the shops themselves. This resulted in a difference in how people interacted with the spaces as the perception of interior/exterior forced shoppers in Copley/Prudential Shopping Center to be wander more in the stores than loiter in the hallways between them, similar to how the people at Newbury were forced to go into stores if they wanted to sit and rest some place due to a lack of benches on the street. Although I didn't have much of a chance to express it in my sketches, there were many different elements such as flooring or the exteriors of the shops in the shopping center, replicated from outdoor malls such as Newbury, that conveyed this sense more clearly as well. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/db08d7aff87a7903d50edc2ff102aca6.pdf cac852d81b12124758e4945c3067daab https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/749af57a60f0b98bb106e85782ebd99d.pdf 343235feb6c289ca6fa26941e61f07ea 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 2 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 Zaria Smalls Description An account of the resource When tasked with creating a sketch of Harvard University from the athletic fields to the law school, I made the assignment into a personal challenge to exhibit how accurate and expansive my knowledge of Harvard was. In reality, that challenge was not the assignment I was given. For this sketch of Prudential Center and Newbury Street, I wanted to focus more on the experiential aspect of the two spaces and make more of statement on the space I encountered. The first time I went to Newbury Street, I only wanted to eat; however, I found that most of the restaurants felt overpriced for the food they offered. The first time I went to the Prudential Center, I ate at least twice. Of course, expensive restaurants existed in the mall but the entirety of the mall didn’t feel as class restrictive. With this information in mind, I approached this sketch as a social commentary on class aversion to certain spaces based on food accessibility and pricing. I walked through both areas solely marking the cafes and restaurants I encountered and the pathway I took. I put dollar signs on each store location based off my perception of the price of food in comparison to the amount of food received. None of the restaurants on Newbury St. dropped below two dollar signs; all the shops where you could buy food provided seating. Nor were all restaurants on Newbury Street accessible to people of all abilities. Meanwhile, not every store front that served food had seating but the Prudential Center itself had more space for public seating, in the sense of green spaces, benches and a food court. The places that were expensive provided more private seating. Overall, I think Newbury Street poses as an inaccessible space for those of lower socioeconomic class and non-abled bodied people. I hope these findings came through in my sketches. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/033041d6d856b46b925125296c41d0b2.jpg 4077fb5770e4df8727acdfb813ef2bee https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/8f4781b7aaf1dfbd6d3ff65060b84fb2.jpg 1b0b277959752ec2f8fc1d8d8f31006b 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 2 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 Timothy Shea Description An account of the resource 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 constant movement surrounding me in the somewhat narrow-feeling halls of the mall. If I stopped walking for a moment, the groups surrounding me would continue so that I had to pull myself to the side of the hall to stay out of their way. In the various wings of the Prudential Mall, direction seemed uniform between the hundreds of people surrounding me. It was easy to find myself following the crowd on my side of the hallway for the entire wing without noticing. However, once you reach central areas, where halls converged, there was a confusing mixing of directions. Perhaps I am not used to such crowded malls, which made this characteristic of Copley and the Prudential stick out to me. On Newbury Street, I started my walk near the Hynes Convention Center and Massachusetts Pike and as I continued down the street, the architecture had a very evident pattern. While my walk began with smaller, flat-faced brick buildings, it evolved to the characteristic larger curved-faced brick buildings, until I reached larger-still department stores, hotels, and churches that dominated my surroundings before I reached the Public Gardens. This change in building size made me feel like I was advancing into a larger more advanced city than the initial architecture hinted. Also it is important to note that the buildings on Newbury Street are so unique that my sketch paid less attention to the straight nature of the street, and more to what a shopper finds themself observing to their right and left. I indicated hypothetical individuals in both sketches by money signs, because of dominating theme of high-end shopping in both settings. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/7963455693f53f9e0bba6768b58906c0.pdf 2e105d1350a1ac41a51d092b1eb06bc3 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2f2d1281c2f305dab2e07d4773d7018b.pdf 1fea9fdcced064f60a0c15b9ef485ba3 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 2 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 Eva Shang Description An account of the resource For the purpose of this assignment, I took on the perspective of Copley Place and Newbury Street’s target audience: a young, professional woman who likes fashion. The vast majority of shops in Copley Place are luxury goods, just enough above a younger woman’s salary to be aspirational. Asides from the central waterfall, there are few places to sit, indicating that Copley Place is not meant for families or for tourists, but rather as an addendum to the luxury hotels for people like Emily to shop while in Boston. The connected Prudential Center has more traffic, although the vast majority of visitors are still professionals working in the buildings connected. In both, places to eat are few and concentrated in small areas, indicating that the primary purpose of the mall is for shopping and not for leisure. The structure of the ceilings of both is to allow for the maximum amount of natural light in a controlled, air-conditioned environment to facilitate ease of shopping. On the other hand, Newbury Street appears antiquated in comparison, and most likely, far less appealing to young professional women wishing to consume. Because the street is outside, the shops are denied the opportunity to broadcast aspirational messaging or images. The stores themselves are more obscure, and towards the edges of the shopping districts, the businesses become cheap salons and cafes—much less high end than Copley Place. Stores must advertise through limited window space, and although buildings are curved to allow for maximum commercial exposure, the sidewalk is slightly raised and adjoined to the stores by a narrow staircase. Altogether, Newbury Street is much less conducive to bringing in potential customers. The traffic on Newbury street is also significantly more mixed, and the audience catered to is less controlled than in Copley Place. For a young professional, Newbury Street might be a quirky brunch spot, but definitely would not be the center of consumption. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/d37eb823f5e9ffa2011ccbf7d054db11.JPG a027a8eddd6d6e4f4458243869b15a23 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2e6d513aa83a836bb8e05b03df38016e.JPG e2e6d4a05f2f8d56e9b6b9adb32ac9a6 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 2 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 Yigit Sezener Description An account of the resource Newbury street offers a very unique shopping experience that is at once very similar to that of a shopping mall, but also carries with it great discrepancies. The first aspect of Newbury street that is mall-like is the continuous stream of un-interrupted shopping locales. Unlike many other shopping streets in the world, this particular segment of Newbury Street is not interrupted with residential settlements or eateries. Furthermore much like the uniform facade of shop-fronts in a wall, Newbury Street offers the same uniformity on the facade of it’s buildings. Each building is adorned with a Neo-Georgian pointy roof and the entrance to each building is through a wrought-iron post-industrial bridge. This is the part where Newbury Street differs from a mall, in the sense that every shop has an extended entrance and sometimes it is even confusing to figure out which bridge leads to which shop! Contrastingly Copley Center offers a much less confusing shopping experience. It is built as a series of narrow pathways that lead up to great big spaces that contain shops and offer an open floor plan that allows the shopper to see other floor. This combined with the massive waterfall in the middle creates a sense of commotion, movement and bustling the mall even on a very non-busy today. If the floor plan wasn’t this open and the levels layered the mall would feel much less crowded; which is an interesting contrast to Newbury which always feels like it’s crowded and bustling due it being a narrow street. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/e8dde3490242df3b6053d6602bd6e383.png bfe9b57331d5dc3ad634cfdb05e8331e https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/e671209beb62d2094c4b98ba512a4272.png 986a855d25405ec2e3cb7cea47af7214 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 2 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 Eric Ronda Description An account of the resource When taking the elevator up from the ground floor to the main entrance of the Prudential center Shopping mall, you begin in a glass ceiling hallway that “begins” your journey throughout the mall. While traveling through the mall, the experience is similar to driving down a the right side of a ride with stores on your right, and the other side with people traveling against you with stores on their side. Instead of dividers on the road, there are a series of stalls selling different merchandise. After each long straight walkway there is a large area where people tended to gather and talk to each other. Unlike the walkways which seemed to be built strictly for walking, the large areas had places to sit and relax. The Prudential Mall felt much more open and brighter due to the large use of glass, which gave the mall a much happier and fun feel than the Copley mall. When crossing the bridge to the Copley Mall, the red/orange granite floor along with the dim lighting gave a much more serious and more sophisticated feel to the mall. In the middle of the Copley Mall was a place for people to congregate and listen to the waterfall or plan the next area they will go to. However similar to the Prudential Mall there are walkways that seem to have one purpose and that is for travel, whereas the bigger sections in the center of the mall are for various activities and places for people to gather and communicate. Traveling through the mall, it seemed as though the plan was to make the exits on the very ends of the mall and very hard to find so you end up traveling on this constantly changing road until you reach the end. The Prudential Center also infused plants and shrubbery within the plan of the mall to liven the feeling. While traveling down Newbury Street I got a very similar feeling to when I was traveling through the walkway of the mall. The sidewalk that you walk down is separated from the stores by a small front yard that each store had. The Front yards were used for multiple purposes depending on what the sore was. Most restaurants utilized the space to have outdoor seating, which appeals to a lot of people who would like to eat outside while looking at the traffic walking by. Another commercial aspect of the street are the displays within the windows of dressed up mannequins.