Suburbia
Social Space in the Planametric City
PART TWO: DUE OCTOBER 2, 2008, 8:30AM
Through imagery and prose, you have each identified five different forces affecting the social space of your site. You will now map these forces.
With your group, develop a base map, derived from aerial imagery available online at maps.google.com or maps.live.com. This base map must cover the minimum extent of your preliminary observations - a 1km radius around the Station in question - but it may cover more area, and it need not necessarily be centred about the Station. The forces at play on your site may not be evenly distributed in all directions: choose your extents and your orientation carefully.
The design and set-up of the field is perhaps one of the most creative acts in mapping, for as a prior system of organization it will inevitably condition how and what observations are made and presented. Enlarging the frame, reducing the scale, shifting the projection or combining one system with another are all actions that significantly affect what is seen and how these findings are organized.
Print one copy of your base map for each member of your group on a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper.
Overlay a sheet of 8.5" x 11" transparency film, and using appropriate markers (Staedtler Lumocolor or the equivalent), posit the spatial character of one of the forces you identified in Part One. What are the different parameters of each force, and how might you represent them in plan? What physical information as found on your base map should be emphasized on your transparency in order to map your force? You may need to revisit your site, either in reality or virtually, in order to fully map your force.
Repeat this process for each force.
Upload all six maps (the base map, and the five force maps) onto the blog in a single post. Bring the physical maps to class on October 2. Note that each member of your group should make a separate post, and have separate force maps - only the base map should be prepared as a group.
EVALUATION
Base Map: /3
Force Maps: /5
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