Lat:39° 44' 24" Long: -105° 2' 59.99"
DENVER BUILDINGS BY CONSTRUCTION YEAR
Thanks to Denver's Open Data Catalog, I can take recent building footprint shapes and apply the construction year from Denver's parcel data to show the development of buildings over time in Denver.
Created using python and leafmap ( see this), the animation below takes you quickly through all the decades year by year.
It shows development based around the core, but you can also see the pop when suburban life took hold and the how the automobile changed the shape of cities.
If you want to explore the data in more detail, use this tool to explore the construction age of buildings in Denver.
Please give it a second to load - it is alot of data!
Drag the slider to explore different date ranges and see where construction occurred during different periods. Since the data is using current building footprints, it doesn't take into account structures that were demo'ed, but it still helps outline the patterns of the city during different periods or the total accumulation of buildings. I like to isolate the buildings in the last decade to see locations of more recent construction and development in Denver (and compare those to the urban heat island and historic red lined areas here).
Use the tool in its own browser window here.