tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750259.post116211555973665965..comments2023-04-06T16:50:44.293+02:00Comments on A Roll in the Universe: Rural sprawlKeera Ann Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466103379725251225noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750259.post-1162240565741481202006-10-30T21:36:00.000+01:002006-10-30T21:36:00.000+01:00Good post about Norway's relationship with the gre...Good post about Norway's relationship with the great outdoors. (Go read Tim's post, folks!) One advantage to all this trekking in godforsaken heather and granite is that Norway has excellent topographical maps with trails marked.<BR/><BR/>Scandinavia doesn't have enough people with which to take over the countryside. Norway's almost as big as California, but California has 30 million more people, but there is a sort of rural sprawl to California, too, thanks to everyone bunching up in the cities and a huge number of national parks and forests. I think what Norway lacks is the true suburb, that built-up phenomenon that sprawls near a town, but is not in it.Keera Ann Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07466103379725251225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750259.post-1162212486758996102006-10-30T13:48:00.000+01:002006-10-30T13:48:00.000+01:00I remember that thought all too well ( this post. ...I remember that thought all too well ( <A HREF="http://tnrin.blogspot.com/2006/07/great-outdoors.html" REL="nofollow">this post</A>. ) Pookie & I used to live in a small town south of Gardermoen - <A HREF="http://www.kvasir.no/kart/index.c?startId=a_148397&hits=&imgt=MAP&stopId=a_10000328420" REL="nofollow">Kløfta</A> - and we both worked in downtown Oslo. I can remember even seeing barns and fields <I><B>just</I></B> outside the very main city block of Oslo, and thought that was very odd upon seeing that the first time. <BR/><BR/>I think Scandinavia (excluding Denmark) is vastly different than the U.S. or western civilization in general, seemingly that it's more as if Norway, Sweden or Finland have made an agreement with nature, and have mixed with it rather than take it over.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07702450314264683565noreply@blogger.com