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R E A D I N G S O C I O - S P A T I A L I N T E R P L A Y P A R T 2between the system of outdoor spaces in the inner parts of thecity and the outskirts of the city. This particularly affects thechildren’s range of activities. It takes more planning andorganization to get the children out to play in the cold and darkseason in this kind of area. As they both work full-time andoften lack the extra energy it takes to go elsewhere, he regretsto admit that their children in the dark seasons spend far toomuch time indoors. “We have friends all over the city: Furtherout kids go out and play on their own all year around, whilekids in this area sit indoors entertaining themselves in front ofdiverse screens while drug addicts and people with fightingd<strong>og</strong>s have the parks for themselves in the wintertime”. On theother hand, “children in the outskirts seems to have a muchmore organized leisure time, and hopefully we compensate bybeing able to take the children on everyday family outings bybike to museums, cafés, the beach at Bygdøy, parks and alongAkerselva in the summer, while our friends in the outskirts arestuck with their children’s soccer games etc.” For weekendsthey almost always drive out of town, to their cabin or to seefriends or family (#403).As illustrated by some of the previously mentioned interviews fromGrünerløkka, the appreciation of Grünerløkka’s ‘centrality’ is related toproximity to the city and activities downtown, though without living “in themiddle of it” but in what is described as a “village” or “town within the city”.In contrast to informants from the other two study areas, which in generaldescribe centrality as easy access to a wide range of activities all over theurban landscape, a number of informants from Grünerløkka touch uponissues of neighbourhood development in relation to a conception ofGrünerløkka either as a more delimited unit or a dream of the area developinginto a more fully equipped “town in the city”:A designer in his 50s explains his domestic choice byemphasizing the ambition and the ‘drive’ of this particulararea: He wanted to live in Oslo, and he wanted to stay in anarea with a challenge and “buoyancy force” (“oppdrift”). Thisarea and the apartment had enough bohemian feel to it(“bohemfaktor”) to appeal to him. It was spicy enough (“krydranok”), the neighbourhood had density, and it gives him thesense of living in a city. He studied in a European city when hewas young and it was then he got the taste for this kind ofenvironment. He considers himself an urban individual, and he286
R E A D I N G S O C I O - S P A T I A L I N T E R P L A Y P A R T 2likes to take walks in the parks rather than in the forests. Hewas born and raised in the countryside, but he doesn’t at allmiss that way of life. But the area isn’t without problems: “Thetaggers and the drug addicts need to be solved. There is somekind of misunderstood softness towards the taggers. The drugaddicts should be taken care of rather than being chased aroundthe neighbourhood: The Eika-area is degrading.” According tohim the city council in no way spends enough resources oncultural activities in Grünerløkka, even though it is a dense partof the city: “Everything here seems to be based on restaurants,and not much has been done to get cultural activities andactivities for the youth started. (…) If you compare thepopulation and the investments in cultural activities atGrünerløkka with other places, very little has been offered thepopulation at Grünerløkka: 27,000 people live here – more thanin a medium size Norwegian town – and today there is onlyone theatre, which was started by a private group, there’s nomovie theater and no public cultural scene where independentgroups can stage a play (…) The neighbourhood is a microsociety,and there is a need to make people belong here, to givethem a particular identity and shared cultural experiences. Theonly institution offered to people here is the library.” Over thepast five years he has noticed that a lot of immigrants havemoved out: There has been a great change of people in theneighbourhood. “It is of course sad that some deprived groupsare forced to move out of the area. However, now that thestandard of housing has improved, the tax income from thisarea must be much higher too: The city council should returnmore of these resources back to the neighbourhood andupgrade our structure of public cultural institutions!” (#107)Furuset – green and calm, closeness to nature, public transportation and children’s activitiesAlso the informants from Furuset stress the use qualities of the physicalenvironment as supportive of their chosen way of life, the importance ofcentrality, and the value of independence from using a private motor car ineveryday life.“I appreciate living in a satellite town with everything withinreach. (…) We live close to nature, close to public transport,and the outdoor spaces are green and tidy – with a variety ofpossibilities for children’s play. (…) I really enjoy the greensurroundings and seeing children in activity on my daily walks287
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