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Inspired by a Washington Monthly
blog post
about Google Maps' new
Satellite feature,
I decided to visually document the places where I have lived. For the images, however, I used
imagery from the TerraServer or imagery from
the Google Earth program. I slightly
darkened most of the image so that the place of residence is more quickly visible:
Berkeley, California
From 2007 to 2008 I lived in Berkeley
while a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.
I lived with
three others on the top floor of an elderly Korean's home about a mile from campus.
Tianjin, China
I lived in China for three months in 2007, studying
Mandarin at the Tianjin University of Technology.
I lived a distance from campus in a dorm for
international students, but the campus is visible in the bottom of the image.
Alexandria, Virginia
In 2005 I lived in the Ashlawn Building of the
Southern Towers apartment complex.
The swimming pools and tennis courts are visible, and
Interstate 395 flanks the bottom of the image.
College Park, Maryland
From 2000 to 2003 I lived on campus at the
University of Maryland. For my first four semesters I lived in Ellicott Hall,
the southernmost
of the two highlighted buildings. For my last three semesters I lived in LaPlata Hall, the other
building.
Easily visible in the image are many of the campus landmarks, including Byrd Stadium and
some of Cole Field House.
McLean, Virginia
My main residence from 1992 on. A long time ago
Rupert Street used to
end in a cul-de-sac, hence the bulging of the street near the top of the image.
Falls Church, Virginia
After the 1991 evacuation from Zaire, I lived in
Oakwood Apartments for less than one year. Oakwood Cemetery is southwest
of my building, and North Roosevelt Street, the road to the north of the building, is where
a car came within inches of hitting me.
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