5 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f928c115d4a8afeb5336cc06768c4b28.JPG 1d876a12d45be3bd78ca4fbc08716664 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 1 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 He Li Description An account of the resource The main difference between my sketch and reality is that my sketch is a lot more grid-like, while the actual layout of Harvard Square has far more curved roads and diagonally-aligned buildings. For example, the engineering and law school portions of campus are at a diagonal to the Yard, whereas in my sketch they were aligned with the left and right sides of the yard. I also misjudged the area around the Eliot house cul-de-sac, and drew it along the grid rather than at a diagonal, following the line of the river, as in reality. This made it so that the area around Lowell house is distorted. There is too much empty space to the north of Lowell house in my sketch, because there is less space in reality because of the curve of the river. I also misjudged the spacing of many of the non-Harvard buildings and businesses, because I am not too familiar with many parts of campus. The part that I drew is where I spend 90% of my time while at Harvard, and most likely reflects my mental map of how to navigate it rather than any conscious memory of a map of Harvard. When I'm walking around, I think more in terms of whether I take lefts or rights, not whether a certain path is curved. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/53e7aac0f791906a165eb38cdafd063a.png d1e6a2263917218da8c1b1fb033e2ee0 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 1 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 Yao Li Description An account of the resource The placement and proportion of the buildings within Harvard yard are fairly accurate on my map, probably because they’re enclosed in a square block (and then are located in specific geometric subdivisions within that block). This orientation helps me systematically rebuild the space in my mind. The general direction of landmarks in relation to each other is the only accurate characteristic on the rest of my map. The most striking difference and cause of inaccuracy is the proportion of buildings and streets – I tend to make them too large, or the space between them too distant. This reflects my perspective in that I only take notice of all the college-related buildings in the area (and some commercial stores); all other landmarks, buildings, and streets are hazy in my memory. This is likely true for all people – we only pass by, visit, and remember a very small portion of the environment we live in, and that portion depends heavily on our past interactions, memories, and habits. Most people do not have photographic memory (and do not need it because prioritizing is a natural survival instinct). In my map, Harvard Yard itself is proportionally too small in relation to the campus as a whole – perhaps the rest of the campus sprawled out so much in my mind because I didn’t have the simple geometric boundaries of the yard to judge distances and proportions with. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4427dffa6cd204d40277de83fbbbbc50.jpg cfdfb730d8016a061f2874a63848eafc 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 1 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 Katja Lierhaus Description An account of the resource I chose to do the most familiar path that I know of today: my route to class. I begin at Eliot House (bottom left corner of the sketch labeled with a cursive ‘E’) and I travel upward toward Harvard Yard (designated by the ‘H’). I then travel around the Science Center toward the Law School, cross over the lawn, and end at Pierce Hall at the upper right corner of the sketch. I chose to exclude almost everything else, since they are not very pertinent to my everyday life and I thus could not remember their exact orientation. It took me quite a few iterations until I thought I got as close as possible to what the plan drawing of Harvard Square actually looked like. I also included two of my favorite places in the Square: Park Restaurant & Bar (denoted by the ‘P’) and Crema Café (denoted by the ‘C’). I visit Crema Café often so it felt natural to include it in my path. I often sit facing the window and observe the activity occurring directly in front of me. It is a pause in my path that allows me to reflect upon how my path is simply one of an infinite number of paths. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f143461b09096e9aa40c48e876fc03da.pdf f992f63d36298cc23c1c2fbaa7cafbca 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 1 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 Tianyu Liu Description An account of the resource I'm generally happy with the final product, but here're some difference I noticed with the real map: 1. I misrepresented the triangle area around Cambridge common. With that, the size of science center and law school are both very off. 2. I missed the branch between science center and Quincy Street. The locations of firehouse and Art Museum were a bit off 3. I missed the triangle area around brattle square. 4. I drew too many horizontal streets between Mt. Auburn and Charles river. I started drawing my sketch from Harvard Square, but I misrepresented a lot of triangular areas around it. Generally speaking, The biggest mistake was the size of science center plaza. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/5d09233827a2e7845d7d22c8ce495eb9.pdf 6ced6fdb167119eed37769e6ceea3bbe 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 1 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 Tiffany Lopinsky Description An account of the resource This assignment has illuminated that it’s easy for me to clearly picture small segments of the square, but it’s difficult for me to put it all together into one cohesive unit. The largest difference between my map and reality is how the CGIS and GSD area of the Harvard campus relates to the rest of the square. While I spend a decent amount of time around CGIS, it’s hard for me to visualize how that connects to the square since I’m usually cutting through the yard. Also, my interpretation of how Mass Ave intersects with Brattle and JFK is very off, something I suppose is due to the fact that I never drive in the square – Harvard Square as a walker is much different than Harvard Square as a driver. I don’t know the names of the streets and I cross through spaces inaccessible to cars. Furthermore, the space between the Cambridge Common and the Quad (Chauncy Street, Shepard Street, Walker Street) is virtually non-existent on my map, likely due to the fact that I hardly ever find myself over there. The one space that I accurately depict is the space between Mt. Auburn and Mass Ave. Since I live in Lowell House and walk to the yard almost everyday, it’s easy to visualize. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/11bcb89b66d095f074903503221bbc35.jpg a27d8678e8066b65b8bca0de1fcdd293 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 1 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 Stephanie Manivanh Description An account of the resource 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. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/919b0cd99ddec936a592ba5ce12a4d0f.JPG 0e1aaa444625ba8d7d0d8e16624c3a74 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 1 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 Maria McLaughlin Description An account of the resource My map of Harvard took up a lot more paper than I thought it would. When I was brainstorming the individual parts on a notebook, I tended to be very detailed with the shapes of the buildings, and I made them particularly large. This meant that I was struggling to fit all of the pieces together into the giant map, without accidentally drawing buildings too large or confusing the proportions. My proportions and levels of detail are directly related to the importance they held in my mind and my knowledge of them. The River houses are therefore very detailed and my housing, Dewolfe, is pictured as the largest of all of them, although it is the smallest. The Yard takes up the large center portion of my map because I see it as the middle of campus and the hub of Harvard. Likewise, because most of my classes take place in the Science Center, that building was significantly larger and more prominent than Sever or the Fogg or even Widener. I found this exercise to be rewarding because I am noticing more of the campus on my daily walks through it. I now have a greater appreciation for the buildings, streets, and park benches that I had excluded from my map and from my memory. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/c2d34a639c465349869fbe30a548810b.jpeg a312c78d49700ad997fbd98a9f053317 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 1 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/. Description An account of the resource Urban design still remains a foreign concept: space, dimensions, structure can easily clutter the mind when drawing our fondest roads from memory. Despite the initial hesitation and frequent erasure marks, I believe the product that came out captured the spatial distribution of Harvard very closely. The map is not completely accurate, by no stretch of the imagination, but it really does encapsulate the most important landmarks of Harvard while respecting the spatial distribution of the urban/suburban settlement. Right off the back, the biggest difference I see is that of perception, meaning that in comparison to the actual map, my map elongates certain bottom portions. This is most apparent with Winthrop House which is my home, as well as the point of origin for the sketch. Winthrop is by no means the same size as the Science Center but the way I went about designing this map started from home and worked its way abroad causing certain levels of exaggeration in size for Winthrop (but not substantial). Furthermore, my map has very accurate points at times, the Yard, the walk to the Quad, the houses along the river symbolize places that matched up almost identically to the real map. This is most likely do to these places being centers of my life, and thus my memories that I can perfectly sketch them out. It seems that these three foci served as the triangle of urban planning for my mental map in which the great challenge was filling the in-between space and the peripheries with landmarks that I could easily recognize. As compared to a flat map, my map makes use of height in buildings that are stereotypically tall for the rather low (five floors or below) heights of the buildings in the area. The way it became manifested in the map was in the form of visual stylizations where a level of three-dimensionality was added to buildings like Memorial Hall, Annenberg Hall, The Smith Campus Center, the Leveret Towers among others. As a final note, somewhere that the two maps do align is with the demarcation of parks, green with the Google Maps and shaded in with my map. Parks and green spaces are extremely important in these areas, particularly considering the masses of brick buildings that align the streets, so there is extra attention placed on them for this unique purpose. Title A name given to the resource Daniel Montoya https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/95895bf1eaec3751f0be7409d1b2d824.png 3b3dedaed9d93f629d3a07095e8c6f21 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 1 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 Drisana Mosaphir Description An account of the resource The main focus of this image was centered on finding where I experience the most motion within Harvard Square. Coming to the cross-section facing Mass. Ave. and the Yard from the T station, more specifically from the point of view of someone slightly above (e.g., in one of the stores behind the T station a few floors up) pinpointed the area in which I’ve been able to note, especially as a tour guide, the coming-together of so many people, from the groups who live outside the stores and spend much of their time on the benches in front of Mass Ave’s banks and businesses, to tourists attempting to orient themselves by the visitor center, to students throughout campus, to people commuting in and out of the station. Additionally, the bustle of the square and the openness of this area gave a good backdrop on which to reflect about the gates closing off the houses and the pathway to the Charles River. While campus is largely intertwined with the city, it is also evident through the opening and closing of these gates that the campus can be selective of how much access people get to us, despite the fact that the relationships doesn’t necessarily work in reverse. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/64ba4c7601ee2d29157d2d8077350c6a.JPG 323c3e12ab4649c1e28862baa4b0eb10 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 1 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 Quinn Mulholland Description An account of the resource I was surprised by how accurate my depiction of Harvard Yard and the upperclassmen houses along the river was. I have a lot of familiarity with that area, having lived in the Yard last year and spending a lot of time in the Kennedy School or visiting friends in river houses. I think my map emphasizes roads almost as prominently as buildings, which makes sense because I bike almost everywhere (since I live in the Quad), so I have to navigate those roads everyday. I made the roads that I bike on a lot, like Garden Street, Mass Ave, Mt. Auburn, and Brattle Street bigger, because I’m more familiar with them. My depiction of other locations, however, like buildings north of the Yard or east of Quincy Street, was less accurate, probably because I spend less time in those locations. Something that surprised me was that I completely forgot about some streets, even in parts of campus that I see everyday, because I rarely go down them. I also severely underestimated the distance between the Quad and the Yard, probably because I travel that distance everyday. Additionally, I completely forgot about some of the freshman dorms in the Yard—because I rarely went in them, but made my own dorm, Canaday, much larger and more prominent than it really is.