8 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/cb4bd918c81127506f59d6050f6a6f82.jpg 724726987fa0dc29ea570a65d5185566 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/8c8be0c444670c3a44a9cb4b4fc04f1e.jpg c1ad57e23116d484ee3df6508c306ba6 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/e34d821cdb161808d7a1173a06d6394b.jpg 78adb72d51dc52e52ad2476c80c06148 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 2 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 Harry Newman-Plotnick Description An account of the resource The main point I attempted to distinguish in these two/three drawings was the difference between non-commercial walkways in the two spaces. In the malls the walkways felt like these clearly defined pathways, with just a few entrances/exits, surrounded by a haze of stores with the street in the background. That is why the main path I followed was a thick blue arrow, with the stores and streets being loosely shaded in red and grey areas. While walking down Newbury Street, however, it felt like the exact opposite. The streets were clearly defined and the stores were obvious, with steps up to their doors and each store set apart from all the others. The sidewalk, though, was vague. There were gardens and little patios in front of some of the stores, and the demarcation between public and private property was unclear. Thus, the walkways were full of unclear exits, which is why there were many small arrows and the shading was vague. The streets and stores though were solidly colored. This shading is also meant to distinguish between the atmosphere of the two scenarios. In the mall the walking is confined, enclosed on all sides by walls and a steel and glass ceiling. Newbury Street, conversely, is open to the world, with a much larger variety of sounds, sights, and smells. In the malls the walkways were there to efficiently get between places to shop, whereas on Newbury Street, the stores seemed more like fun ways to punctuate your journey up and down the sidewalk. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/6cb4e461c5afcaa73ac95944f44b577a.jpg 3ee0a0211a1ea9a8b8ffa727340453e4 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 Harry NP Description An account of the resource The most notable difference between the actual plan of Harvard square (from the quad to the athletic fields) and my drawing was the overall shape of it. While on the small scale many of my areas were fairly accurate in terms of shape and size, overall the area from the quad, to Harvard yard, down to the athletic fields has a bit of a backwards C arch to it, whereas in my drawing they are much more directly in line with each other. I think this is indicative of how I experience this area. I don’t remember where all of the different streets are necessarily and how everything fits together in the big picture (i.e. where the river changes course), but I have a decent memory for the local relations between buildings (i.e. what buildings I can see from the entrance to another). I knew almost all of the major landmarks, but their orientations were not precise. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/415764908a14a010a8d67e908ccb30e3.jpg 41b15d8a9131fa96ff74f5f230843807 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 2017 - 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 Hayley Wyeth Description An account of the resource I’d say my map is fairly accurate, though not at all to scale. The areas of Harvard Square that I know well are quite detailed; I found while doing the assignment that I know almost every building in the four square blocks between the yard and the river. However, I also realized how poorly I know the area between the yard and the Quad (I live in Kirkland and avoid the Quad at all costs) and the athletic complex (I also avoid exercise at all costs). The buildings in the yard are scaled to miniature size, because I couldn’t figure out, even after three tries, how to scale the whole map to fit in the quad and athletic complex while keeping the yard large enough to draw in each of its 20 or so buildings. I found that I knew the Old Yard (surrounded by dorms) far better than I knew the New Yard (surrounded by class buildings), because I mainly take classes in the science center, so I’m not totally sure how Sever and its neighbors fit into the map. I was particularly impressed by my accuracy when sketching Church, Brattle, Mt. Auburn, and Eliot Streets, because they all merge at a pretty strange intersection. I’d attribute this fact to my horrendous attempts at driving in the square and having to circle that area several times before getting onto the correct one-way street. Overall, this assignment taught me that an individual’s experience and knowledge of a city is totally subjective; it’s obvious which parts of Harvard Square I’ve spent time in and which parts I haven’t. Additionally, I learned that I experience urban areas quite locally, in that I don’t really think about areas outside my field of vision — when drawing the map, I could only focus on one block at a time, mentally walking through the immediate area, then moving on, rather than thinking of the Square from a big picture sense. I’d guess that this is probably why the scaling is so off. This was a really fun exercise, though, and I’m looking forward to the next sketch. 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/f9cbde7c987701e259fa0aaba49a4eaa.jpg e8144bc8ed0837d2a5a7adc35219a98f https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/3773d70b199ed6b5c638d5fb41864777.jpg a42fc120318b6258933f2b72b91919e2 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 2 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 Although Newbury Street and Copley Place/Prudential Center seem like two different worlds – one outside, the other inside, one containing eclectic and contemporary brands and the other containing luxury heavyweights – the two utilize similar design strategies for their commercial purposes. On Newbury Street, every single storefront has roughly the same height and elevation, with the spaces in the buildings above the stores used as office spaces or residences. The entirety of Newbury Street has many consistent themes: red brick, at most four or five stories high, with plenty of glass storefronts. These, combined with the wide sidewalks, mimic the experience of an indoor mall. The sameness of the surroundings of each store, the glass, the freedom of space to roam – all are similar to the experience of walking through a mall. Copley Place/Prudential Center share many of these characteristics, although there are some specific differences. Copley Place has a low ceiling for many of the stores, providing an intimate atmosphere for luxury shoppers used to personal attention, while Prudential Center has a high ceiling for its generally more accessible brands. The indoor malls have clear entrances and exits, with welcome signs, whereas Newbury Street simply intersects with other streets. Newbury has no main gathering spots – it's one long street, whereas Copley has a main center with a large carving, and Prudential has a main open space next to the Microsoft store. One more interesting point of difference is the ability to escape – Newbury intersects multiple streets, each of which provide an exit, but in order to get out of Copley, a shopper has to walk back through a long, wide corridor lined with stores to make it back out. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/6d7589dcdd4499a31379f078703301a2.jpg f4dbdf8cdaded5fcb103aa75a2041d43 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 Helen Bae Description An account of the resource Upon looking at a map of the actual area on Google Maps, I found that my memory didn’t fail me too much; the relative placement of most of the buildings was fairly accurate so the overall product didn’t look entirely different. However, and this is something I struggled with while actually sketching, I clearly have no sense of roads or streets and failed to fully incorporate them into my sketch. The fact that I couldn’t remember roads and similar divisions but could remember the buildings isn’t very surprising to me – even when I am driving or walking somewhere, I have always directed myself in terms of landmarks (“I pass building X and keep going until I reach building Y”). In addition, drawing to scale was very difficult and it was impossible to consider how large and spaced out the buildings were relative to each other; I eventually focused solely on remembering their relative placement. Along with roads and streets, the biggest discrepancy I noticed between the sketch and the map was the amount of space that existed between buildings. I treat roads and streets as a means to get somewhere, so they don’t figure prominently in my mind; I also don’t remember lawns and social areas but, ironically, I would remember the lack thereof if they weren’t there. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/3014a99d63be90a1eb4cff33bb85c0fa.pdf 6b7dde2b372102ce46a060fac8e45d4e https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/cec379b508c15020c7c5529a5cfadce8.pdf 8b88072f8cc8fbd22df15e660561979b 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 2 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 Helen Bae Description An account of the resource Copley Place and Prudential Center are different in many ways, both commercially – Copley is more upscale on average – and aesthetically. Even within Prudential, there were differences: Boylston Arcade was predominantly white in appearance due to the white walls whereas Back Bay Arcade was generally darker and incorporated dark red bricks in the walls; I wondered if Boylston Arcade was intentionally “brighter” because of Microsoft and Tesla, which took up considerable real estate and traditionally have storefronts that are white. Interesting to note was the slanted ceiling of Back Bay Arcade – it was almost as if it served to guide the patron around the corner. For perhaps logistical reasons, both the main entrances/exits of Copley and Prudential involve riding an escalator to reach the shops, which is a different experience than simply walking onto Newbury. Furthermore, security does not actively guard entrances but they patrol the mall and presumably remove those who are disturbing others. In Prudential, there are benches but no other real sitting spaces, especially as the food court has been closed due to renovations. Interestingly, I noticed that people on the walkways and benches frequently looked at each other, though fellow walkers did not tend to notice each other. Newbury, on the other hand, is clearly a commercial space (elements such as hanging store signs, large glass windows, and mannequin displays are present), though there’s almost a residential vibe to the area, partly because a more inconspicuous part of it (i.e. higher floors, unmarked buildings) is actually residential. Situationally, Newbury is the divider between residential and commercial: one block over consists almost entirely of apartments (Gloucester St., etc.), but the opposite block over is commercial, including restaurants, businesses, and Prudential; it’s important to note that Newbury itself continues on until it ends at the edge of Boston Common. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/ea5065381aacccf4d6923b1cec0a2d1b.pdf 7f85f6cdb334cd702f809dfb3a84b689 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 Ignacio Bayardo Description An account of the resource The path I choose to draw is the path or two points that I have spent most of my time in. Since I am studying Engineering I tend to spend most of my time around Maxwell Dworkin. As I was trying to picture my usual path I only really remember my general path. The curves, relative distances between turning points, and the major land marks. Once I compared my map to google maps I noticed that the general structure is the same but the relative distances between road crossings and turning points are way off. Compared to the crisp cleans lines on google maps mine are chaotic and more free flowing since my path changes all the time. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/bf0b336ec0774ab89010a07772523b79.pdf 7001d4c5e91cdde49693240a8516f3ee https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/853a0446775cb3df0714847a055a4605.pdf 0993b6f260e5bd03507162f34e41ade8 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 2 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 Ignacio Bayardo Description An account of the resource One of the most interesting aspects that I observed when I visited Copley place, prudential center and Newbury Street is the spectrum of the buildings interaction with the outside world. Newbury Street was the center with the most interaction with the urban environment. The street seems to have been repurposed from living spaces to commercial ones giving the street a very “Boston” feeling. I felt like I was walking through a residential. Newbury also had the most social space between the above listed locations. Since there were more places to sit, the traffic and the movement of people was much slower compared to prudential and Copley. Prudential on the other hand, had some interaction with the outside world but not with Boston but with nature. This commercial center had glass ceilings and walls allowing more sun to come through. But the scenery from the glass walls was not the hustle and bustle of Boston but a serene garden enclosed by the prudential center. People in this center seem to have more of a purpose when walking through the building so the traffic was more intense and faster paced compared to Newbury street but there were less sitting spaces compared to Newbury but more compared to Copley so people tending to rest and maybe people watch or hand out within their groups but they did not stay as long as the people in Newbury. Copley was like a concrete cave cut off from the rest of the world. There wasn’t much natural light coming in and almost no usable sitting spaces between the stores. So the traffic was more directed and people tended not to linger in Copley for long after completing their tasks. These three locations have distinct way of portraying commercial grounds from a mains street commercial center you see in older towns that are more social space than a commercial space, to the concrete malls designed to fulfill one purpose and nothing else and the in-between which tries to balance social space and commercial space like prudential https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/6f92eb67f97bb5df21a27b2fe83769b6.jpg 52c39f67a46eefc4bd4343361b938e35 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/9d316d3ef0b7148d4fe9c91d6676cd7a.jpg 63a6f261c8f4d65ae930c68460cb4f1d 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 2017 - 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 Ingrid Goetz Description An account of the resource My ability to reproduce Harvard Square from memory was greatly shaped by my limited area of daily access. I live in Dunster House, which is on the eastern-most side of campus and all my classes are on Quincy Street. I rarely head north or west, even into the Yard—which also limits my awareness of how other people use those spaces. My process was to sketch from the bottom-right of my page (the south-east corner of campus) from what I knew best to what I knew least. Errors definitely compounded and I was fairly aware that I was choosing between correct orientation and scale. Scale was really difficult to keep constant as well.