9 10 221 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/39f8450402b32669b08e7b605a148d7f.jpg a741bca29b2d8f70bc84985e8c51728c 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 Robert York Description An account of the resource This is a sketch of Harvard Yard, where all Harvard undergraduates live during their freshman year. I chose to draw this because it is by far the most familiar part of Harvard to me. Obviously, because I live here (Lionel Hall to be exact), I spend the vast majority of my time in the yard, so I have gotten to know the buildings very well. I think I got the sizes and locations of the buildings pretty accurate, but the walkways across the yard are just a mess and there is no way I could remember them exactly. Because I live in Lionel Hall, I am most familiar with that side of the yard, so I think that is the most accurate part of the sketch, but overall I think I remembered the layout of the yard as a whole pretty well. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/a8a045ebbd7ba9ff16440e962c8d91af.pdf cb3efd2ceb3ad1e35271a2bab748b315 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 Spencer York Description An account of the resource This is a birds eye view of the area surrounding the MAC Quad. I chose this area because I live in Kirkland and I am very familiar with this area and knew I would be able to reproduce it well from memory. The scale may be slightly off and I do not know the exact layout of Eliot or Winthrop because I am never in them, but the general area I believe is correct. I drew in arrows to show the direction of traffic on the one and two way streets to show the general movement of the area. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f663c54c2b22fe47624488aa4f291b70.JPG 860828f10c9925c6a7f9a4eb66b27586 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 Gloria Yu Description An account of the resource I was concerned about this project because I have a terrible sense of direction. Part of it is due to the fact that because of a leg condition I have, I have not walked around too much and been able to explore large areas as much as others. Also, since I’m from Korea, where one doesn’t drive until a pretty late age, I have little driving experience. Hence, only having been driven around—which requires less concentration then actual driving—I found that when making this sketch as well, I was not very aware of roads nor have a spatial sense that one acquires when one walks and actively takes in their environment. I was pretty familiar with the River House area where I am used to walking around in (Leverett- Quincy- Adams House on the Bow Street side) because I live in Leverett House and have walked those streets on my way to and back from class. Also, since I viewed Leverett, where I live as the focal point, I subconsciously drew those houses on the River much larger, with everything else away from the houses close to the river—Harvard Yard, the Square, especially the Quad area progressively smaller. In my mind, I seemed to have had a subconscious sense of perspective, when since this is a bird’s eye view, would not necessarily exist. Although I was pretty familiar with the location of houses near the River, I was lost to where the roads lay, and their proportion to the buildings—probably because I’ve never driven around the River House area. I was also completely unaware of where the Quad is located—because with my leg, I had never directly walked to the quad, only using the shuttle for my occasional visits, which tend to meander and stop at various locations. Also, I noticed that in Harvard Square, because I’m more focused on getting to the one store I am headed to amongst the throng of people (which makes it very difficult for me to concentrate) rather than leisurely taking in my surroundings that it was difficult for me to remember the shops as a continuum, or even how many streets are in the square (which is something I forget in real life as well). The map I drew generally reflected my understanding and experience of Harvard Square—I remembered better places I had walked to-and-fro more often (River House Area near Lev, down Quincy Street & Bow street where most of my classes are located) and either the places I visited most often or places I was completely oblivious to (Eliot House) were drawn larger. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/1e391386d1ca8970fa94d057428c5f76.jpg 462be902692715b9356207aa863cf629 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 This assignment turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated. I started by sketching the yard, but quickly found the both the river and the Quad were too far away for me to accurately render. Eventually I figured that drawing the map digitally and being able to stretch the canvas at will would be the easiest way. The areas that were easiest for me to draw (and probably the most difficult for some) was the area North of the Science Center. I live in the Dudley Coop and bike this way every day, and I spend a lot of time around Divinity Ave and Oxford Street as a biology concentrator. I tried to visualize everything as I drew it - what I saw on my left and right, how long it took me to walk or bike down a street, etc. - but it was still very difficult to remember the buildings I pass by every day. I didn’t know what any of the houses looked like from above (even Winthrop, where I used to live) so those ended up fairly inaccurate, except for Leverett Towers, which are somewhat distinctive. Mather and Dunster I rarely visit and so are relegated to being indistinct blobs. The case was the same for the business school and stadium. I was especially bad at delineating streets, as I don’t drive and rarely pay attention to traffic. There are several intersections I couldn’t get to link up: the one by Annenberg, for example, as well as the one by the T stop. I am typically not very good with directions, but I often use landmarks to guide me. I think for this reason I was able to draw most of the buildings that exist on Harvard campus, but their sizes and shapes are largely incorrect. Similarly, I’m sure a more avid driver would be able to draw the intersections and roads more easily than I. Title A name given to the resource Julia Yu https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/4fabc604719c60aa59792817497c598f.JPG 01ede5955eb247e9c08bb7dccd61b801 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 George Zachary Description An account of the resource I have been on campus for over a year and a half and am confident with my sense of the layout of the main streets and side streets. These are relatively accurate in my sketch. What is different is the structure of the buildings. I do not necessarily pay close attention to the size, width, and location of some building on, for example, Mass Ave. or Mt. Auburn street. Based on my memory, I was not able to recall walking paths or the exact curve or length of some streets. I would say that the main structure of my map is fairly accurate as well as the shape of the Harvard River dorms. I would suppose that my sketch and the Google map display of Harvard Square are different because I have not had a sharp awareness of the design and arrangement of buildings in Harvard Square. I hope that this class allows me to be more critical in viewing the structure and organization of this town. I hope that if I pay more attention, I will see Harvard in a new light and relate to the town more closely. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/3ab3b8c2f5226bfab38be80218fece98.JPG eaf0d2c4284e0316f2f2e1e7d2d9a778 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 Sarah Zaghouani Description An account of the resource As it turns out, my map is pretty inaccurate, but the relative location of each school is more or less correct. The most obvious inaccuracy is in the intricacies of all of the roads that connect Harvard Square. The most accurate part of my map with regards to roads is around the river houses, which makes sense, as I walk those roads every day. Additionally, in looking at the actual map of campus, I realized that there are quite a few more areas of heavy foot traffic than what I represented on my own map, but, again, I only depicted that foot traffic that corresponded to my daily route, more or less. Additionally, the way that I proportioned the map, the part of campus (Yard and River Houses) take up a disproportionate amount of space compared to the parts of campus that I almost never visit (the Quad, Law School, the Stadium and Business School campus). Moreover, it seems that as far as categories of building spaces go, the number of dorms that I drew is closest to the actual number of dorms that exist, whereas I vastly underrepresented every other type of building. This again hints at the fact that I am an undergraduate, and reflects where I spend most of my time. What I took away from this is that I have a very skewed perception of campus, and I should get out more! https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/2148520289bca056e4c2f24b1ea076f2.jpg 51185fdde02fd69b79e9a87622dfba63 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 Renee Zhan Description An account of the resource Comparing my map to Google maps, my map is somewhat more accurate than I initially expected. The buildings I inhabit and use more frequently I was able to more accurately represent. Buildings such as Leverett House, the Lampoon castle, the Carpenter Center, and Sever Hall, I placed fairly accurately. Because I was certain about the locations of those buildings, I was able to do well in regards to the buildings surrounding them as well. My strategy when creating the map became to plot the buildings I was certain of and then radiate out from there. Consequently, the area from the main Harvard yard to the south of it to the river is fairly accurate on my map. However, in other areas of the square, my map is less accurate. In the main square, where the shops and restaurants are, I was only able to make guesses regarding the locations of shops I frequent, the rest were left blank. More generally, my map has a more precise grid than reality. In my version, I assumed a strict north/south, east/west alignment for streets and buildings. In reality, the streets of Harvard square are more angled and radiate in different directions. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/97a4100c1e778c4f106281bb3d6f85e8.JPG 3541a69b9f4b321b8e952412d81746ac 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 Kelly Zhang Description An account of the resource After comparing my sketch to the Google Maps representation of Harvard Square, I realized that my perception of urban spaces is shaped heavily by the amount of time I spend in certain places. As an upperclassman, I spend most of my time in the houses by the river, or in the shops in the square; as a result, I made the size of the houses and stores much larger than the size of Harvard Yard, where the freshmen live. However, in reality, the “width” of both those areas is about the same. I also ignored a lot of the residential areas in the square that I’ve never spent time in because they didn’t occur to me as I imagined the square in my head. Another striking difference in my map was that I included many more right angles than the city has in reality. For example, because I’m accustomed to assuming ordinary geometric shapes in urban spaces, I drew Cambridge Common park as a rectangle, whereas the real park is a much more round-shaped triangle. I also drew Garden St., the street to the quad, at a right angle to the main street, while it is actually very diagonal in real life. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/b4b644fc5dbafdf1f575bd0979ea210c.pdf 2a98df323e0637cc5ac912aa7c10af38 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld29/original/f13e2cc4410f665cdb77a824e3e414ab.pdf 8ebcc8d513dcf4e603a6f7cb9d5d2713 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 Sarah Anderson Description An account of the resource Standing in the glass walkway between Copley Place and the Prudential Center, I felt like I was encased in a cage of commercialism. Cases containing sample products line the path, signs point to endless, nearly indistinguishable shopping options, and the windows look out onto even more lines of stores and restaurants. The connections between malls are likely meant to encourage shoppers to continue on their commercial journeys. There are few to no design elements that serve a purpose unrelated to shopping and commerce; all paths lead to shops, benches are meant for tired shoppers rather than socialization, and advertisements serve to promote the malls’ tenants. Furthermore, other areas of Boston were not very visible from the walkway, only reinforcing the feeling of being encased in commerce. Newbury Street is designed in contrast. Although it similarly is populated by commercial outlets and is meant to encourage shoppers to enter stores, it has a clearer sense of place within Boston. Office towers are visible in the background, while the architecture represents the aesthetic of old Boston. Most buildings on Newbury Street have three “levels.” Residential apartments are at the top, stores are in the middle, and restaurants populate the basements. There are also more benches to accommodate socialization, and the atmosphere is one of relaxation and recreation rather than intense shopping. In summary, despite serving similar purposes, the Prudential Center/Copley Place and Newbury Street differ drastically in their structural elements and atmospheres. 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.