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Although Newbury Street and Copley Center/Prudential Mall are very different shopping settings, they surprisingly share very similar characteristics. Copley Center and the Prudential Mall are indoor shopping malls with an emphasis on open space and…

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In my drawings, I tended to focus on areas of Harvard’s campus at which I have spent significant amounts of time, places that I tend to pass through somewhat carelessly or with haste. In some sense, that is how I interact with the campus and with my…

I am confident I know the purpose of Newbury St as of today: it is a shopping district, targeted toward affluent people. But it was not its only use historically—I walked by the old American Academy of Arts and Sciences building dedicated to…

It’s immediately obvious, looking at my map, that my knowledge of Harvard is very much concentrated on the Square and the Yard and as one gets further towards the periphery of the campus and surrounding area, my knowledge rapidly diminishes. While…

What’s fascinating about the Prudential Center and Copley Square malls is the way in which they both seek to simultaneously evoke the covered shopping street and, more complicatedly, the dynamics of a small market town. In the first case, the peaked…

The end result of my map sketch, while being nowhere close to completely accurate, was actually considerably more on target than I had anticipated. While working on this project, I realized how many spaces on campus I pass through regularly without…

My map of Newbury Street is actually a combination of multiple segments of Newbury: the image of the street and walkways depict the segment between Gloucester and Dartmouth, where the storefronts, which are former residential spaces turned…

In my map of Harvard, I prioritised the spaces that I interact with. I largely ignored places across the river, in the quad, or beyond the Science Center, because I rarely venture to those areas of the campus. I live in Eliot House. I started my…

Examining these two different commercial spaces was very interesting because it became evident how they were trying to imitate one another, but also how different they still were. To start, I went to the Prudential/Copley Malls, and I noticed that…