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Originally Posted by Marshal
Way back, I studied a semester under Ralph Erskine at UofT School of Arch.. I've been to Byker Wall (Newcastle, UK), the grand-daddy of them all - I had no idea that Fremont existed. And its not that small, especially for where it is. I can't believe it never came up in that studio. Especially since we directly studied the building wall concept. And we were in Canada. And Erskine obviously knew. And so too for the other profs.. Crazy!
Regardless, it's cool to be surprised by my own country in this way.
Oh, and Ralph Erskine was crazy.
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Haha, I'm sure someone like Ralph Erskine as a prof would be fascinating just for the entertainment value alone.
My husband's childhood was spent in Jarrow, not far from Byker Wall. But to him "Byker Byker Byker.. Grove!"
Byker Grove BBC tv show from 1990s to early 2000s and similar to the Degrassi series in Canada was what he thinks about when asked about "Byker".
Demolition of communities to build Byker Wall to insulate the area from freeway traffic without thinking about how else it insulates the people that live there in other ways seems like poor planning back in those days when the original terraces at Byker were so important to the people that lived there.
The Fremont wall to shield people in that community in Quebec from the harsh cold 7 months of the year there would have been a build without demolition of existing homes.
Since I'm on this thread, another couple maps...
Population Density map of Canada.
Something I've never really thought of before is how Saskatchewan's main population is spread diagonally across the province from SouthEast to NorthWest, in the same angle as Saskatoon/Regina vector.
Where as Alberta's is vertical from South to North, Calgary to Edmonton.
As flat as a pancake most people think Saskatchewan is, the province has a point with higher alpine elevation than most of Canada's other provinces, including Manitoba, Ontario and the Maritimes and it's only when you get to border of Quebec & Labrador do you get as high of an elevation in Eastern Canadian Provinces.
https://greatsouthwest.ca/cypress-hills/