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1、Investigating a Site in CityThe city itself provides a text richer than any other you will read this semester. Using old maps, prints, and photographs, but primarily your own eyes and mind, you will have the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the course to “reading“ a site of your choosing
2、. This semester- long project will be due in five parts; the assignments vary in length from two to six pages, a total of approximately twenty-six pages. One of the first four assignments must be revised and resubmitted; each student, in consultation with the writing tutor, will choose the assignmen
3、t to revise and resubmit. Students may not make changes to an assignment between the submission date and receipt of grade. After receiving your grade for an assignment, you are free to revise. Investigating a Site in CityAssignment 1: Select a Site Assignment 2: Your Site Through Time Assignment 3:
4、Your Site and Natural Processes Assignment 4: Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends Assignment 5: Telling Your Sites Story Assignment 1: Select a SiteDescribe your site and reflect on why it interests you. What questions does the place raise for which you hope to find answers this semester? The text
5、 should be equivalent to approximately two typed pages, accompanied by a map.Select a SiteYour site can be anywhere in Boston, but should be a place you can easily visit from time to time throughout the semester. It should be between four and eight blocks. Ideally, it should include more than one ty
6、pe of land use. And it should be a place which intrigues you. Reflect on why it interests you, why you are drawn to it. What questions does the place raise, for which you hope to find answers this semester?Assignment 1: Select a SiteWhat questions does the place raise, for which you hope to find ans
7、wers this semester?Generally, the more diversity your site has, the more interesting its development over time is likely to be. This is not a hard and fast rule. If you pick a site in downtown Boston, for example, the uses may be all commercial, but the development over time will still be very inter
8、esting.A land use means a type of use, for example residential (single family homes, apartments), commercial (stores, offices, movie theaters), industrial, institutional (schools, hospitals, churches, post office), recreation (park, playground, golf course). Two different land uses could mean two di
9、fferent kinds of the same use (single family homes and apartments) or it could mean two different kinds of use altogether (residential and commercial).Assignment 1: Select a SiteWhat questions does the place raise, for which you hope to find answers this semester?The text for this assignment should
10、be equivalent to about two pages, and must be accompanied by a map of the location with the boundaries of your site indicated.Post the assignment online on your website and email the address to me. Late submissions will receive a reduction in grade. There will be no extensions without prior, written
11、, consent of the instructor.Visit the course website and read about your classmates selections before class. We will review and discuss the sites in class. Assignment 2: Your Site Through TimeTrace changes over time on your site by comparing its character at several points in time, using different t
12、ypes of sources. What changes do you find? How would you characterize them? Are the changes gradual or do they seem to happen suddenly? Do changes within a time period seem related? How about from one time to another? Can you find patterns in the changes? What might explain the changes you found? We
13、re they merely an outcome of actions by individuals or do they reflect broader forces (social, cultural, political, economic, or natural processes and conditions at local, regional, national, or global scales; policies; events; technological changes)? The text should be equivalent to approximately s
14、ix typed pages, accompanied by illustrations.Assignment 2: Your Site Through TimeYour Site Through TimeThis is the second part of a five-part, semester-long project. The first assignment was to find a site. Now the task is to trace changes on your site over time by comparing its character at several
15、 points in time, using different types of sources. You may find different kinds of changes: land use, density of settlement, additions to buildings, ownership, transportation. The types of sources you will find helpful may include nineteenth- and twentieth-century atlases; old maps, plans, and print
16、s; and photographs.Start your investigation by locating your site on maps in several atlases of different dates. Include at least three different time periods in addition to the present, including at least one from the nineteenth century. By comparing your site at different times, you are likely to find that changes between some dates are more significant than others. Record the changes you think are important or interesting. Yo
