Description
Residents and visitors in nowadays’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As town grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to house their changing visions. In Too High and Too Steep, David B. Williams uses his deep knowledge of Seattle, scientific background, and extensive research and interviews to remove darkness from the physical challenges and on occasion startling hubris of those large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the Duwamish tideflats to the large regrading project that pared down Denny Hill.
In the course of telling this fascinating story, Williams is helping readers find visible traces of town’s former landscape and better remember Seattle as a spot that has been radically reshaped.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af51FU8hHLI