ABSTRACT
While the central city and the waterfronts we have discussed thus far are several kilometres inland, Melbourne has always been a city on a bay. Port Phillip Bay is the vast stretch of water protected from the sea by the Bellarine and Mornington peninsulas, which almost meet at the Port Phillip heads fifty kilometres to the south. Unlike the river and port, which were cut off from the city and largely forgotten, the bay has long been one of the city's prime residential locations and urban playgrounds. The stretch I am concerned with here is the four-kilometre frontage closest to the city from Port Melbourne to St Kilda.
