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Sitting in the Starbucks at the corner of Mass Ave. and JFK feels like being in the center of the world. You are the axis around which activity turns. I chose this view as the vantage point for my map because it captures the buzz I associate with…

The primary difference I noticed between the indoor mall organization and the design of Newberry Street was the manner in which merchandise was featured from the windows. Throughout the malls, storefront displays appeared in windows that were much…

For my sketch, I followed ChengHe’s advice and focused on the areas that are most meaningful to me on campus—these also happen to be the areas that I spend the most time in at Harvard. Most notable, although not central in my sketch, is my home away…

The placement and proportion of the buildings within Harvard yard are fairly accurate on my map, probably because they’re enclosed in a square block (and then are located in specific geometric subdivisions within that block). This orientation helps…

Newbury Street and the Copley and Prudential malls both serve roughly the same purpose – commercial shopping – but do have vastly different impacts and experiences. In general, Newbury seems target younger and less affluent consumers and…

While drawing this map, I realized how little I knew about the specific businesses located in the Square and how difficult it was to draw what I perceived. I tried to draw a map that was more or less to scale with how I saw the area, but I soon…

I focused on the physical atmosphere more on Newbury Street than in the Prudential/Copley Place Shopping Center. I tended to centralize my ideas on the people passing through the space in the latter. I noticed that even though Newbury Street is…

In this amateurish mental map which I have devised solely using my memory, and images that come to my mind when I think of the places around Harvard Square; depicts a path I take quite oftenly, the path that leads from my apartment to the river side.…

Newbury street offers a very unique shopping experience that is at once very similar to that of a shopping mall, but also carries with it great discrepancies. The first aspect of Newbury street that is mall-like is the continuous stream of…