Getting Around Williams Village

This is a guide to Williams Village for someone who is on foot and carrying out a self-guided tour. The StoryMap includes walking times to provide a better understanding of what it is like to get around Williams Village on foot.

This map functions as a guide for navigating a self-guided tour of Williams Village at the University of Colorado Boulder. This guide is meant for those visiting or those who can not visit to view online. The theoretical perspective employed is that CU Boulder could distribute this guide to students, faculty, and visitors. Perspective students and visitors can use the guide to get to know the Williams Village landscape. This perspective takes on an informative tone and the goal is to be informational about the landscape.

Williams Village offers resident, visitor, and street parking. Street parking can be found on 30th St. parallel to the Stearns and Darley Towers. Williams Village Parking can be found just off Baseline Rd. in front of WV North & East. Bear Creek and covered parking can be found parallel to Highway 36.

Stearns East, Stearns West, Darley North, Darley South, Williams Village North, Williams Village East, Weber Hall, & Bear Creek Apartments

Village Dining Hall & Commons and Williams Village Recreation Center

Williams Village Bus Stop, Bear Creek Bus Stop, & Bear Creek Path

Williams Village is a campus community for CU Boulder undergraduate and graduate students. The dormitories in WV are primarily dedicated to undergraduates while Weber Hall is primarily dedicated to graduate students. Williams Village truly is a small village right outside of CU Boulder's Main Campus, offering dining, a restaurant, a market, a FedEx store, and a recreation center. Students live AND learn here with several dormitories and buildings featuring functioning classrooms. There are also many indoor and outdoor study spaces throughout Williams Village. Whether you're visiting Williams Village in person or virtually, you're sure to see the vibrant life throughout this space.

I recognize this as a cultural landscape because it is a space that humans have taken and turned into a place for community. Cultural landscapes are defined at creation and the creation of this space was for the purpose of it being a student community (Stoffle et al.). The name of the space, Williams Village, signifies that it is a designated community setting where people, in this case, students, work and live.

I think that this StoryMap indicates Williams Village as a sacred space because it presents it as a space where people live their lives. Not only does this guide show that people go about their daily rituals here, it also highlights the significance of students doing this in this particular space.

Gaining an understanding of this space gives insight into what a student's life here is like. The notion of "where" matters because it encapsulates the relationships within the space whereas the notion of "when" does not. Maps "illuminate the relationship between space and society" and this guide is a version of that (Dym & Offen). It allows one to see life in the space and not just the space by itself.