Assignment 1 - Hometown Map

For this assignment I was tasked with making a map of my hometown of Albany, New York, from memory. Throughout the map making process, I discovered that I think about Albany in terms of memorable areas, which led me to highlight several different regions on the map. One of the more interesting regions is the green region labeled "My Neighborhood". It may seem weird that someone would label a 1.5 square mile area as their neighborhood, but this is the area where I walked to school every day, where my closest friends live, and where I have distinct memories of riding my bike throughout the hilly streets. Another discovery I made when mapping this region was that the significant points of the region tend to line its borders even though I drew the region's borders before placing the significant points on the map. This tells me that I must have been subconsciously thinking about the significant points as I was drawing the borders.