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went into the exercise quite confident. After all, I don’t use a GPS to get to any destination between the Quad, athletic fields, HLS and the Square. In fact, I know many shortcuts and feel I give decent directions to the many tourists who ask for…

I am a freshman. I barely live here. I’ve seen the Charles River probably five times in my entire life. I couldn’t get to Mather House even if you gave me a compass and directions printed off Google Maps. So this was a difficult exercise for me. My…

To me, a juxtaposition of Boston’s Newbury Street and Prudential Center ties in very neatly with the comparisons we’ve been drawing between urban and suburban landscapes. Obviously both sites exist within an urban environment. But the slight…

My sketch tends to heavily focus on the riverside of Harvard Square. Unlike the actual map, I found that in my sketch I disproportionately scaled the buildings to a bigger size, making the other buildings along the northern end of Harvard difficult…

The theme that I focused on in my sketches and observations was the notion of inside/outside. I found that the two spaces each conveyed a sense of an interior and exterior, blurring the lines between what is actually outside or inside throughout the…

Overall, my map based on purely my memory of Harvard's campus depicted the relative locations of the different parts of campus (e.g. the Quad, the Yard, the SEAS area) accurately, but it was clear from the inaccuracies in the scaling, the location of…

Aside from a predictable prioritization of those features and regions of the Harvard-dominated part of Cambridge that I observe or use most often, my map doesn't seem to stray too far from more standard cartographies (namely, Google Maps). One…

I'll admit that I thought what I was going to learn from this assignment was that street-level commerce produces a convivial, integrated atmosphere whereas enclosed galleries make for predictable, contrived shopping—an opposition implying that wholly…

The experience of drawing something by memory was incredibly fun. I realized as soon as I began my drawing what areas of the square mattered most to me by how well I remembered them. I'm an athlete concentrating in biology who lives in Dunster. While…

Drawing this was a really interesting assignment as I tried to fit onto an 8”x11” piece of paper everything in the square that was important to me. I started with the two places that are most central to my life—Weld Boathouse and Cabot House (the…