Today's walking tour gonna take us to Rodeløkka - a relict village in the middle of Oslo. Old timber houses, blossoming palisades, green quite gardens, cats, cats and cats...
The area grew as a suburb of Kristiania (now Oslo) after the city expansion in 1859. In 1878 Rodeløkka was include into the city limits through another expansion, which put an end to the construction of more wooden houses due to mandatory stone-building within the city. Rodeløkka became a typical working-class neighborhood, and throughout the 1900s, it was perceived as a rather slum area. In previous urban development plans the district, just as many other historical areas in Oslo, was regulated for demolition (cynica...