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The main difference between my sketch and reality is that my sketch is a lot more grid-like, while the actual layout of Harvard Square has far more curved roads and diagonally-aligned buildings. For example, the engineering and law school portions of…

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…

I chose to do the most familiar path that I know of today: my route to class. I begin at Eliot House (bottom left corner of the sketch labeled with a cursive ‘E’) and I travel upward toward Harvard Yard (designated by the ‘H’). I then travel around…

I'm generally happy with the final product, but here're some difference I noticed with the real map: 1. I misrepresented the triangle area around Cambridge common. With that, the size of science center and law school are both very off. 2. I missed…

This assignment has illuminated that it’s easy for me to clearly picture small segments of the square, but it’s difficult for me to put it all together into one cohesive unit. The largest difference between my map and reality is how the CGIS and GSD…

My map is a pretty accurate top-view rendition of how the Harvard Square area actually looks like. The places that I’m most inaccurate in drawing are places that I rarely visit (business school and the athletic fields, parts of the quad). I think the…

My map of Harvard took up a lot more paper than I thought it would. When I was brainstorming the individual parts on a notebook, I tended to be very detailed with the shapes of the buildings, and I made them particularly large. This meant that I was…

Urban design still remains a foreign concept: space, dimensions, structure can easily clutter the mind when drawing our fondest roads from memory. Despite the initial hesitation and frequent erasure marks, I believe the product that came out captured…

The main focus of this image was centered on finding where I experience the most motion within Harvard Square. Coming to the cross-section facing Mass. Ave. and the Yard from the T station, more specifically from the point of view of someone slightly…

I was surprised by how accurate my depiction of Harvard Yard and the
upperclassmen houses along the river was. I have a lot of familiarity with that area,
having lived in the Yard last year and spending a lot of time in the Kennedy School
or…