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Sitting in the Starbucks at the corner of Mass Ave. and JFK feels like being in the center of the world. You are the axis around which activity turns. I chose this view as the vantage point for my map because it captures the buzz I associate with…

My first impression was that after looking at a map, the scale of my drawing was a bit off. Some buildings were a bit larger in the sketch than they actually are (Harvard Coop). I think this reflects what locations I've been to most in the Square.…

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…

It was most difficult to sketch the scale of the campus, because I conceive of the campus as a
series of discrete, interconnected areas rather than conceiving it continuously (cf the Situationist ‘map’).
I found it interesting that there is a sort…

This drawing was heavily dependent on my personal exposure and time spent in each part of the Harvard
campus. I realized that drawing the relative positions and paths connecting the buildings were the most
difficult component. I generally know the…

Comparing my sketch and an overhead image of Harvard Square on Google Maps, I have several major takeaways. First of all, my general conception of proportion is generally good. The size of Cambridge Common relative to the size of Harvard Yard on my…

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…

My sketch includes a map of the Undergraduate campus at Harvard University, noting major roads and sidewalks that travel throughout the campus. An important note about my sketch is that it does not include all sidewalks, but rather the most congested…

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…

In my sketch, I drew Harvard Yard and its surrounding areas with symbols and colors representing student housing, class or study spaces, tourist gathering areas, student gathering areas, and paths that students use to go from place to place. My map…