Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
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Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to accommodate 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 illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris of these large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the Duwamish tideflats to the massive regrading project that pared down Denny Hill.
In the course of telling this fascinating story, Williams helps readers find visible traces of the city’s former landscape and better understand Seattle as a place that has been radically reshaped.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af51FU8hHLI
Too High and Too Steep was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
David B. Williams
Raised in Seattle, David Williams is a general naturalist with a bachelor's degree in geology. As a Park Ranger and educator, he has taught natural history both in the field and in the classroom and has written widely on the topic for the las decade.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A little on the dry side, but if you either live, or have lived, in Seattle for any amount of time, this will be a great read. It covers a lot of the landscape modification done historically, including the filling of parts of the bay and the Duwamish River, the building of the Ballard Locks and the regrading of Denny Hill and a few other smaller projects.