The Rough Guide to Melbourne 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

280 Pages·2005·8.49 MB·English

by  Stephen Townshend, George Dunford

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The Rough Guide to
Melbourne
written and researched by
Stephen Townshend
with additional contributions by
George Dunford
NEW YORK • LONDON • DELHI
www.roughguides.com
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왕 View from Brighton beach
Introduction to
Melbourne
Australia’s second-largest city and capital of the state
of Victoria, Melbourne prides itself on being a place that
knows how to live well. It may lag behind Sydney in terms
of population and prestige, but its less brazen charms
offer a quality of life which other Australian cities fi nd
diffi cult to match. Magnifi cent landscaped gardens and
parklands have made the city one of the greenest in the
world, while beneath the skyscrapers of the arresting
Central Business District (CBD), elegant Victorian-era
facades present Melbourne on an agreeably human scale.
Often topping lists as the world’s most live-
able big city, it’s an enjoyable place to visit too.
Residents and tourists alike can take pleasure
in its successfully multi-ethnic society; its
revitalized city centre, housing some of Aus-
tralia’s coolest cafés and bars; and in its leading
role in Australian cultural and sporting life.
For close on a century a rather staid, Anglo-
Celtic city, postwar immigration has shaken
up Melbourne’s old ways for good. Reminders
of former conservatism linger on in the city’s
uniform layout and relentless suburbanization, but the infl ux of peo-
ple from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Vietnam, China and more recently
Eastern Europe has enriched and energized the city’s formerly inward-
looking and parochial character.
In the last decade, Melbourne has also undergone a remarkable renais-
sance in everything from architecture and design to fashion, food and iii
literature, thanks to forward-thinking state governments and massive
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private investment. The “Postcode 3000” campaign has reinvented the
Central Business District as a place to live and socialize, not just to work. A
key indicator of the campaign’s success has been the rise in CBD residents
– in 1982, a mere 700 lived
here, now it’s almost 10,000.
Melbourne has also become a
major cultural and architectural
laboratory, with the redevel-
opment and creation of pub-
lic spaces such as Federation
Square, the National Gallery of
Victoria and Docklands testa-
ment to the city’s bold and
experimental approach to art
and design.
Not all the changes have been
positive – older buildings have
been demolished to make way
for Manhattan-style high-rises
and apartments, and there’s an
increasing number of home-
iv less people and drug addicts on
the streets – but, despite these
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왕 Bolte Bridge
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왕 Luna Park entrance