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My first sketch shows me traveling through the Boylston Arcade. I worked backwards from the direct instructions as I was coming from the Newbury Street direction. I entered in the Boylston Street entrance and moved towards the Center Court and then…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…