The Waterlines Project: Pioneer Square
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The Waterlines Project: Pioneer Square

The Waterlines Project examines “the history of Seattle through a focus on its shorelines: the natural and human forces that have shaped them, the ways they have been used and thought about by the people who have lived here, and how this historic understanding might influence urban-development decisions being made today.”

One of the areas that they focus on is Pioneer Square.

“By the end of the twentieth century, Pioneer Square was perhaps the most desnely-layered historical landscape in the city, both because of the things that had existed there (Duwamish village, Yesler’s sawmill, the business district and Lava Beds, and even the prototypical Skid Road) and because of the kinds of stories told there about the city’s history.”

As “an ethnically and socially diverse slum” that “gentrified into a tourism and entertainment district,” you can check out the changes that have happened in the neighborhood, starting around 150 years ago.

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