THE PHYSICAL PLACE:
"OUR" block is a bit of a blur to me as I am not here as often as you are, but I have some landmarks which I will share as a cognitive map as soon as I figure out how to use drawing software or some other graphic software package. For the moment, these landmarks mark the first layer of my understanding of this place:
1. The streets or corridors for traffic include the named streets: Newbury St., Mass. Ave., Boylston St., and Hereford St.
2. I think of them as traffic corridors and am hyper-aware of them as vehicular streets though clearly, they are also places of pedestrian traffic.
3. I am aware of parking opportunities in sections of Newbury St. and Hereford St. and Boylston St. on the overpass.I can never think of the parking here without thinking of the work of a former student who noted that the Muni-meters have radically changed our behavior. We leave our cars to get the tickets and leave our belongings visible inside them until we return. Do we lock the cars or violate the urban norms by leaving them open --on the assumption that no one will steal our valuables while we are at the meter? How far away can we park from a meter while still leaving the car unlocked?
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THE PEOPLED PLACE:
THE LINKS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND PLACE
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