First River Glimpse

Edge Projection

Blocked Horizon

Station 'A' Reids Ramp Detroit River

Station 'A' is located at the base of St. Jean Avenue at the Detroit River.
The formal marina located adjacent to the public ramp is the Harbor
Hill Marina. See attached map of ref, #9 for the location of Reids Ramp (http://www.netportfolio.com/harborhill.nsf/maplarge.gif )

Abstract Board (revised)

USGS Topo

(+/-) Current Flow

• Mapping the geometrical conditions is under way...it is the relationship to the edge and current of the metropolis that seems to be missing.
• Thought on the mapping of the water levels...in my previous research i came accross an investigation by the Urban Land Institute that related to the abandonment of low-income areas for the development of the middle to upper-income areas. This date i am not sure of, however it seems possible to use this type of shift in conditions that drove many to the edges of the city...(Negitive current flow)
• Now for the (Positive Current Flow)...what event along the rivers edge brings the greatest flow of humans to water?...The International Fireworks...
• So, with these two events in mind, it seems possible to chart the water levels during these specific dates and relate them to the social conditions.
• We need to find specific dates that we can deem "positive & negitive currents" that allows for the water levels graphs to be studied against the social conditions of that time.
• What were the river levels at moments of Detroits cutural "gathering"?
• Can we choose events? Are there other ways to relate time into this investigation?

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

ASTER Project
http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery.asp?catid=70

Great Lakes Flow System

Edge Current Diagram

Public Art Dates

http://www.detroithistorical.org/collections/vewebsite2/exhibit3/vexdate3.htm

Collective Efforts on River

A "found art" sculpture by Matthew Davis consisting of stacked rocks and sticks. The myth is that the sculpture began as a way to get over painful breakup with his then girlfriend. The sculpture evolved as visitors formed a connection with the original project and began to add their own contributions in the form of similarly arranged stones found at eastern river's edge of Belle Isle. Some of the individual rock sculptures depict human forms. Some rock collections display an inscription to a loved one. Nevertheless, in its entirety, the result of what was once a scattered collection of river side rocks now forms the aggregate of a sculpture depicting a harmonious social structure.
http://www.detroithistorical.org/collections/vewebsite2/exhibit3/e30085a.htm

100 Connecticut - San Francisco

Fellas-
Check out this link for live music on the 9th...
http://www.theyankee.com/

Abstract Board

...the beginning???

Detroit River Map

US Army Corp Engineers 1986 map

Detroit Boat Club - Belle Isle

Detroit Boat Club
Queen of the grand exclusive boat clubs of Detroit, the once bustling Detroit Boat Club now stands vacant and decaying while the waters of the Detroit River slide timelessly through the empty slips.
Once the center of attention, gathering place of the rich and powerful, site of world class rowing, the Detroit Boat Club now is but a pitiful old lady wandering the streets of Detroit.

http://detroityes.com/downtown/60dbc_full.htm

Abstract - Gathering

• The relationship between the population of Detroit to that of the Detroit River is in a state of constant fluxuation since the origin of the city itself...this relationship predates any formal decleration of political power to an era when gathering by the river was a means to sustain a quality of life.
• In searching into the relationships between gathering and community, the relationships between man and river provides for a vast amount of research data, charts, and studies that can be dated back from current events to events in the early 1800s.
• It is in the moments which are effecting today's Detroit that this investigation is aiming to relate back into the diverse methods of gathering in the city of Detroit.
• Living through the changes occuring "to the river" and "by the river" can be observered in the levels of fresh water flowing through the river past the metropolis...
• "...water levels are related to habitat for all species including human"

Nautical Chart 14848 (Detroit River)

Soundings of Detroit River between Windmill Pointe and Fort Wayne.
http://205.156.4.52/cgi-bin/EyeSpy.dll?MfcISAPICommand=getbrwx&img=D%3A%2FEyeSpy%2Fimages%2FOnline_Chart_Viewer%2F14848.axs&wsx=650&wsy=500&alx=5841&aly=500&rf=1&buttons=%2Fcgi-bin%2FEyeSpyResources%2Fbuttons&alig=0&contenttype=image%2Fjpeg&eyespyc0009300000.x=29&eyespyc0009300000.y=16

Youth Population

Youth Populaion Migration (1990-2000)

Fort Wayne - Detroit River (Water Level)

Fort Wayne Water Levels
(06-0401 to 06-0501)

Windmill Pointe - Detroit River (Water Level)

Windmill Pointe (06-0401 to 06-0501)

Detroit River Water Levels...
http://glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/monitor.html

Detroit River Video Link
...check out this link to the
EPA / Detroit Water & Sewer Dept/ and University of Windsor, Ontario joint project:
"Evaluating Ecosystem Results of PCB Control Measures Within the Detroit River- Western Lake Erie Basin"
...the video about the sedimetation has some cool aerial video from 2003 and shows the river from the Canada / US perspectives
http://www.tellusnews.com/ahr/epa/index.shtml#video1

Detroit River International Comprehensive Conservation Plan
...a link to the history and efforts to develop an international relationship between man and the natural environment
...chcek the link to the pdf for the plan and then see appendix 'j' for river information in the downtown area
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/planning/detroitriver/index.html

Research-
Detroit river currents
Fish patterns
boat race track
shipping channels...

Urban beach
From Wikipedia

Temporary urban beaches and art installationsA well known art gallery, PS1, had an art installation in the summer of 2002, to explore issues of privacy and space, through the juxtaposition of the incongruous elements of beachlike waterplay space within the formality of a museum/gallery:

...Urban Beach addresses concepts of surface and sensuality, redefining shade, privacy, and space

One of the busiest streets in downtown Paris was also turned into a temporary urban beach.On a busy downtown Toronto Street, a hot tub was recently setup right next to the sidewalk. Part of the fun is challenging people to overcome their fear of being seen in a bathing suit, on a busy street in the restaurant district where people are normally wearing more formal attire. To further suggest public bathing as performance art, participants (many of them passers by who could choose to join in the fun) were fitted with brainwave electrodes, which enabled their brainwaves to generate music and control the lighting.

A number of urban beach art installations were made as a form of social inquiry into the boundaries that exist between public and private space. This helped to combine fear of water, fear of electricity, fear of being seen in a bathing suit, and stage fright, into chance to dare passers by to join in a thrilling spectacle. Stage lighting, controlled by the brainwaves, adds to the notion of urban bathing as performance art.

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