Black and white photograph from the late 1950s showing the Strimmelen housing estate in Bergen. On the left are two tall white apartment blocks. In the center is a low, white building with a distinctively sharp, slanted roof. To the right, smaller row houses line the hill. In the foreground, a motorcycle with a driver and passenger drives along a road.

Cruising into the post-war future.

This is the #Strimmelen housing estate at #Landås, captured shortly after its completion in the late 1950s. It represents a massive shift from the tight wooden alleyways of the city center, looking to the "garden city" […]

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A black and white photo of two people in their Norwegian Sunday best walking in a pastoral landscape with almost no buildings. Forest and foothills on the right, stone fence on the left. In the background, mountains.

Two people walking up towards Natland in Bergen in the early 1900s. After the war, this would become #Landås, the first satelite city outside #Bergen, filled up with low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings.

This image is taken from around where the Rema […]

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