If Seattle Housing Authority proposals go as planned, 15 years from now Seattle's oldest and best known public housing development will be gone. Yesler Terrace will have been demolished and replaced with a dense, new, mixed-income neighborhood. It's a plan every bit as radical and controversial as the plan that built Yesler Terrace in the first place.

In this four-part series, Dominic Black explores the history, present and future of one of Seattle's most distinctive communities: Yesler Terrace.