Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re-vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay. As the financial and industrial centre of Australia, in the late nineteenth century, Melbourne developed a new world exuberance. Yet the twentieth century saw Melbourne suffering from a declining industrial and economic base. The city in the 1980s was de-industrialising, and the re-facing of the city to the water was a key urban strategy of the 1980s and 90s and a catalyst for economic transformation. This book bridges significant gaps between different discourses about the city and to challenge singular ways of viewing the city.

Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront

Politics & Social Sciences

Kim Dovey

Social Sciences

University of New South Wales Press

Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Architext)

Routledge

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Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront

Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Architext)