Too High And Too Steep by David Williams
A concise history of how Manhattan’s original hills, streams, marshes and shorelines were dramatically altered by nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century engineering and political decisions to create the modern city; it chronicles the earthmoving, landfill and street‑gridding projects, profiles the engineers, developers and politicians who drove them, and examines the environmental, infrastructural and social consequences of remaking the island’s landscape.
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