Grünerløkka
Former working-class district of rental blocks, leafy squares, cafés and riverside factory buildings.
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This audio guide to Grünerløkka in Oslo follows Thorvald Meyer, a timber merchant and shipowner who, around eighteen sixty, bought a near-empty stretch of paddock from the Grüner family and set out to sell it as building plots. It touches the lawyer who went into the deal with him, the factories along the Akerselva river, and the plain rental blocks that still line the streets. Best heard on Thorvald Meyers gate, beneath the sign that carries his name.
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