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- Also known as Greater Melbourne, metropolitan Melbourne is the geographical area that defines Melbourne as a city and the capital of the state of Victoria. Spanning over 9990 km 2 metropolitan Melbourne is home to 4.9 million people.
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Also known as Greater Melbourne, metropolitan Melbourne is the geographical area that defines Melbourne as a city and the capital of the state of Victoria. Spanning over 9990 km 2 metropolitan Melbourne is home to 4.9 million people .
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Oct 19, 2021 · According to the government, metropolitan Melbourne “is the geographical area that defines Melbourne as a city and the capital of the state of Victoria”. There are 4.9 million people who...
- Rebecca Russo
- Editor of Time Out Melbourne
The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon Ranges.
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- Infant Metropolis
- 'Greater Melbourne'
- Metropolitan Transport
- Importance of Transport
- Importance of Motor Cars
- Freeways
- Metropolitan Planning
- Metropolitan Planning, Twenty-First Century
When Robert Hoddle laid out what became Melbourne's Central City area in 1837 he positioned its south-west corner next to Batman's Hill near the intersection of Flinders and Spencer Streets. The town's southern boundary (Flinders Street) ran approximately along the northern side of the Yarra River, but as the river did not flow exactly east-west, t...
Metropolitan Melbourne could scarcely be conceived of as such until after the influx of the goldfields population in the early 1850s. Central Melbourne was the primary township. Williamstown, surveyed in 1837, was the potential alternative port and seat of government, separated from Melbourne by Hobsons Bay, two rivers and the West Melbourne swamp....
Metropolitan Melbourne in the 1850s-60s was mainly confined to West and North Melbourne, Carlton, Collingwood, East Melbourne, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne. Mechanised transport links began with the Port Melbourne railway; and railway lines to Bendigo and Geelong (1859) included suburban lines to Footscray and Williamstown. Suburban lines to ...
In 1878 the notion of Greater Melbourne was recorded in the annual Victorian Year Book. Greater Melbourne had 256,477 people, 29.51% of Victoria's population. The population figure is an exageration because Greater Melbourne was defined by a circle with a radius of ten miles from the city centre. Its area of 256 square miles was probably three-quar...
During 1901-11 metropolitan Melbourne's population grew by nearly 100,000. The map below shows the local council areas, their populations and their population densities. Fitzroy's was the densest. Melbourne's is shown as less dense, but in reality North Melbourne (by then part of Melbourne council) had the densest population; Melbourne council's po...
By 1947 the census showed that metropolitan Melbourne's population had, in 35 years, more than doubled to 1.23 million. The inner suburban population densities had little changed, Brunswick and St Kilda being the exceptions. The population densities of the next ring of suburbs had all grown. Camberwell's grew the most, and Coburg, Kew, Caulfield an...
The key to the postwar suburbs was motor vehicle ownership. In Victoria it was: Although residential proximity to trains and trams continued to be important, motor car ownership enabled the settling of 'infill' suburbs like Doncaster, Vermont, Wheelers Hill and Dingley. The decision to place Victoria's second university at Clayton North in the late...
The 1929 and 1954 metroplitan plans foresaw the need for freeways, and the West Gate Freeway and Western Ring Road follow lines drawn on maps in 1929. The 1954 plan presented an ambitious freeway blueprint and the 1969 Melbourne Transport Plan totted up a proposed 510 km of freeways. It partly reflected the 'great freeway building age' in Californi...
The concept of Greater Melbourne had been given formal expression in 1878 and during the next decade the concept of 'Marvellous Melbourne' was allowed to mask an inadequate metropolitan infrastructure, particularly in the area of public health. The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) was established in 1890, with particular responsibil...
The MMBW planning scheme (1954) foresaw that development should be concentrated around district centres such as Footscray, Box Hill and Dandenong, all based around public transport nodes. Urban sprawl was not particularly worrying at that time, and the interwar standard house block of 50 x 150 feet was the accepted norm. (Often described as the qua...
3 days ago · Melbourne, city, capital of the state of Victoria, Australia. It is located at the head of Port Phillip Bay, on the southeastern coast. The central city is home to about 136,000 people and is the core of an extensive metropolitan area—the world’s most southerly with a population of more than 1,000,000.
Jun 18, 2014 · Greater Melbourne is the area within the Urban Growth Boundary and is marked on the current map of greater Melbourne. Prior to 18 June 2014, greater Melbourne had a different meaning.
The city and metropolitan areas of Melbourne also spans along the lower stretches of the Yarra River. Towards eastern Melbourne is the low-lying mountain ranges known as Dandenong Ranges, 35 km east of the city.
