The city of Melbourne, Australia, boasts a strangely organised central business district. The grid layout—much like New York City but on a much smaller scale—was originally named the Hoddle Grid after ...

Degraves Street blends modern and old-fashioned and is filled with bars, coffee shops and cafes. At top: Cobblestoned Hosier Lane is covered in street art and is a popular place with tourists. (Daniel ...

If we think of the bluestone in Melbourne, we may first think of the famous cobbled laneways intersecting the urban grid. Initially, these laneways were used for the collection of night soil – human ...