I don't have my camera with me, and as the only tool I have is my phone, the quality might not be so great.
I'll try to show it from little streets, hidden between buildings, to views from above.
After a few posts with photos from Melbourne's CBD, I realized that I haven't mentioned what it is ... where is it located - I haven't provided any information about it... So this is an update of this post to include an introduction about the CBD.
Melbourne City Centre (officially known simply as Melbourne or colloquially as The City or CBD) is a locality (suburb) within the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area (the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia). Melbourne City Centre's Hoddle Grid is the anchor of the city's Central Business District and it forms a major component of the city's Central Activities District (officially known as the Capital City Zone).
History
Melbourne's central grid patterned layout, known as the Hoddle grid, was first laid out in 1837. From the 1870s to 1920s, the central part of Melbourne was home to mostly medical professionals who had established practices along Collins Street and Spring Street and before the 1960s, only a handful of permanent residents lived in the Spring Street area and St Kilda Road. The area was largely unpopular for residents and council policies did not permit development of apartment style housing in the area.
St Kilda Road was annexed in the 1960s and given the postcode of Melbourne 3004 to stimulate office development along the strip and reduce pressure on overdevelopment of the Hoddle Grid. The result was the demolition of many of the street's grand mansions.
Things changed somewhat due to the Kennett government's Postcode 3000 planning policy in the 1990s, which provided incentives for living in the central area.
Although the city centre now includes St Kilda Road, it competes for office space with Southbank, Docklands and the major outer suburban centres such as Box Hill, Glen Waverley, Ringwood, Belgrave, Ferntree Gully and increasingly South Yarra.
Geography
Officially, the city centre is bordered by Spencer Street to the west and extends north as far as Grattan Street which borders Carlton. The border extends along La Trobe Street, William Street, Peel Street, Grattan Street, taking in the Queen Victoria Market, Berkeley Street, Victoria Street. To the east it is bordered by Spring Street, however the area extends east to take in parts of Wellington Parade, Brunton Avenue, Punt Road and the Yarra River. It borders South Yarra to the south east at Anderson Street, Domain Road, Domain Street, Arnold Street, Fawkner Park, Commercial Road, High Street. It also borders both St Kilda along St Kilda Road and Albert Park along Queens Road, Lakeside Drive and South Melbourne along Albert Road, Kings Way, Palmerston Crescent, Wells Place and finally Southbank along St Kilda Road and the south side of Flinders Street (Northbank) which includes Flinders Street Station and the Melbourne Aquarium.
Although these are the borders on official maps, there are several adjoining areas that function as part of the Central Activities District. This includes Melbourne Docklands (with Docklands Stadium), Southbank, Victoria and East Melbourne/Jolimont (with the Melbourne Cricket Ground).
Although the area is described as the centre, it is neither the geographic or demographic centre of Melbourne, due to an urban sprawl to the south east; the geographic centre is currently located at Bourne St, Glen Iris.
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Little Lonsdale Street -> Hardware Street -> Hardware Lane
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