I have 2.52GB worth of video and images of your site. Some of it is recent material, some is historical. I am burning it onto two DVDs, one of which I will give to Amanda and the other that I will post in your studio.
Here is my synopsis of the site:
Denver was laid out at the confluence of the Platte River and Cherry Creek. The city straddles Cherry Creek. Both waterways are snowpack fed and come straight out of the mountains. During snow melt in the spring both are highly diluvial. In the 19th c. Cherry Creek flooded often with great loss of life and property. In 1909 the city straightened and canalized the creek in between 10 foot high concrete walls. Soon after, during the city beautiful movement the city built Speer Boulevard as a tree lined parkway with southbound lanes on the west side of the canalized creek and northbound lanes on the east side of the creek. To help further alleviate the potential excessive water flow that could inundate downtown, a floodable park, Sunken Gardens, was built alongside the creek just south of downtown. In recent years the creek bed has been turned into a very popular recreational / transportation passage for runners, walkers, bikers, and rollerbladers. Its primary infrastructural task is still preventing the downtown from flooding.
Each of you will site your projects in a square slice of the canalized creek alongside Sunken Gardens Park between the 11th Street and Bannock Street bridges.
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