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David B. Williams - Too High and Too Steep, Inbunden

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Too High and Too Steep

Reshaping Seattle’s Topography

Av David B. Williams

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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.Too High and Too Steep was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-09-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 499 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Too High and Too Steep
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: University of Washington Press
  • ISBN: 9780295995045
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Virginia Marie Folkins Awards 2016 (United States)
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David B. Williams is the author of several books, including Cairns: Messengers in Stone and The Seattle Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from the City. He lives in Seattle.

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"Williams does a marvelous job of evoking the cityscape that used to be. He clues us in to the spirit of civic ambition that drove Seattle’s geographical transformations. He methodically chronicles the stages by which its regrade, canal and landfill projects were accomplished. And he’s meticulous about placing his readers on present-day street corners where they can, with some sleight of mind, glimpse the hills, lake shores and tide flats that vanished."

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