Stephanie Manivanh

Stephanie Manivanh

My map is a pretty accurate top-view rendition of how the Harvard Square area actually looks like. The places that I’m most inaccurate in drawing are places that I rarely visit (business school and the athletic fields, parts of the quad). I think the fact that my map is so accurate in naming streets is because I bike literally everywhere (in red I’ve marked all the bike parking areas I can think of) so I refer to Google Maps a lot. I’ve also been in Boston for three summers straight so I’ve had a lot of time to explore Cambridge. I can see that I pay most attention to exactly how all the streets intersect and are organized. What helped me create this map was actually closing my eyes and visualizing my bike rides and walks around certain areas. Also, since I have a lot of friends who live in the area I am very familiar with the order of the streets leading to Central Square in particular.