Isabella Chiu

Isabella Chiu

I sought to recreate my culinary experience in the Harvard Square area in this map. The eateries are colour coded with green being my strongest recommendation and red being my weakest, while orange is in between. I noticed that I often clustered the eateries by general area but did not place them in the correct precise location (e.g. side of the street, or left/right position relative to neighbours). The ones that were most accurate were the eateries that I frequent the most. I omitted a few eateries that I have either seldom or never visited.

Other elements of the map that were fairly accurate included the buildings I have/have had class in and the streets where I have driven before. There are major gaps beyond the core of Harvard Square, most likely because I quite rarely walk to those regions. Other elements that were mistakenly omitted from the map include small green spaces and plazas around the Harvard Square area. This is most likely because I spend more winter months than summer months on campus and do not often sit outside in those spaces. In the colder weather, it is easy to rush through the outdoors, aiming to get back into the warmth of the indoors as quickly as possible.

Overall, I would conclude that the map is extremely skewed to portray my specific experience of Harvard Square.