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In comparing my map of Harvard square and campus, I found some striking differences, but also many similarities. The most striking difference was that I drew my map on a straight grid based on the roads in the square, but in reality the roads…

With this drawing, I was interested in how students move throughout an urban system of which their university is a part. I tried to depict from personal experience and observation of others, how students tend to interact with public vs. private…

I decided that I wanted to try and depict what is a significant segment of the square to me from the angle that seems most familiar: the start of my journey from home to school. This immediately clarified to me my immense blind spots regarding the…

My sketch was done as if I was a cartography making a map of the city. My focus was not on how individual buildings appeared but rather how locations related to each other spatially. After finishing my sketch, I took…

This assignment was very interesting in that it allowed me to assess my ability to concretely depict my mental representation of my surroundings. I began this exercise by visualizing my everyday route across campus from my dorm near the Charles…

My experience of mapping Harvard Square from memory was a frustrating one. It is one thing to know where two buildings are in relation to one another; it is quite another to know where those two buildings are in relation to a network of streets,…

The most significant insight that arises from my map is that the image of one’s world can be collapsed into the places he or she frequents.

It is imminently clear that my overall directional and spatial knowledge of Harvard’s campus is relatively…

Although I’m biased, after comparing my map to a Google Maps image of the area, I would say my illustration was decently accurate. I have accounted relatively well for the positions of Harvard Yard relative to the law school, as well as the…

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…

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…