Changes to Melbourne's urban growth boundary passed by the state government in 2010 effectively relinquish its satellite city status as it is planned to become part of Melbourne's future conurbation.

Historically known as Emerald Hill, it was one of the first of Melbourne's suburbs to adopt full municipal status and is one of Melbourne's oldest suburban areas, notable for its well preserved Victorian era streetscapes.

Planned as Melbourne's first suburb, it was later also one of the city's first areas to gain municipal status.

Of particular interest to the Association are potential extensions to Melbourne's metropolitan rail network ( including lines to Doncaster, Rowville ( via Monash University's Clayton Campus ) and Melbourne Airport and a reorganisation of the bus network, including more routes being upgraded to SmartBus status.

These businesses cemented Brunswick Street's status as a nexus of Melbourne's indie music and post punk / new-wave subcultures, which in turn drew in waves of suburban tourists in their teens and 20s.

Melbourne's Inpress magazine bestowing ' Single of the Week ' status upon the song " Abraham Lincoln ", which appeared on a split 7-inch shared with New Yorkers, The Essex Green.

Leonski is known as both the " Brownout Strangler ", given Melbourne's wartime status of keeping low lighting ( not as stringent as a wartime blackout ) and also as the " Singing Strangler " due to his self confessed motive for the killings being a twisted fasination with female voices, especially when they were singing, and his claim that he killed the women to " get at their voices.

Most famously, Melbourne's Peel Hotel was granted an exemption from Australia's Equal Opportunities Act by a state tribunal, on the grounds that the exemption was needed to prevent " sexually-based insults and violence " aimed at the pub's patrons.

The Palladium at Crown is Melbourne's grandest ballroom, with a seating capacity of 1, 700 it has played host to some of Australia's premier functions including the annual TV Week Logie Awards, Brownlow Medal, Allan Border Medal and the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix ball.

Although most of the major labels were based in Sydney, Melbourne's vibrant dance and concert scene powered a local boom in rock ' n ' roll and pop music and it became Australia's pop capital in the 1960s.

Essendon became Australia's second, and Melbourne's first ever international airport in February 1950.

Melbourne's cable tram system opened in 1885, and expanded to one of the largest in the world, with of double track.

Melbourne's independent music scene, is one of the largest in the world, whilst another can be found in the multitude of international street artists visiting Melbourne and, to a lesser extent, other major cities, to work for a period of time.

Royal Park, after which Parkville was named after is the largest of Melbourne's inner city parks ( 181 hectares ) and is home to the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens.

Emerald also includes Cardinia Reservoir, Melbourne's second largest reservoir.

However, it is no longer Melbourne's largest commercial exhibition centre.

A steady stream of migration since the 1980s has made Abbotsford home to Melbourne's largest Vietnamese community.

Collingwood is Melbourne's second largest gay village, featuring several gay oriented entertainment venues.

The Atherton Gardens high-rise public housing estate, on the corner of Brunswick and Gertrude Streets, is one of Melbourne's largest, built by the Housing Commission of Victoria as part of its controversial " slum clearance " urban renewal program in the 1960s.

Viewbank's many parks include Banyule Flats ( which includes one of inner Melbourne's largest intact wetlands ), Viewbank Reserve, Price Park and Castleton Park.

Northcote also has one of Melbourne's largest Lesbian communities.

Today, the largest such event is held annually at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne's King's Domain Gardens on Christmas Eve since 1938.

Cliveden Mansions in 1887, Melbourne's largest terrace house development was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for the hi rise Hilton Hotel, Melbourne

While notable terrace housing is predominant in the area, the suburb also has some fine remnant mansions, the oldest and largest in East Melbourne being the blue stone colonial mansion Bishopscourt ( designed by Newson & Blackburn ), which dates back to 1853, was used as Victoria's Government House in 1874 – 1876 and has been the residence for all of Melbourne's Anglican Bishops and Archbishops since its completion.

Royal Park is the largest of Melbourne's inner city parks ( 181 hectares ).

More than 5000 babies are born at the Mercy Hospital for Women each year, making it Melbourne's second largest obstetric hospital.

The Star Sydney Casino & Hotel ( formerly Star City Casino and prior to that, Sydney Harbour Casino ) in Pyrmont, Sydney, is the second largest casino in Australia after rival Melbourne's Crown Casino.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

Victoria University's 11 campuses campuses are located across Melbourne's western suburbs and the city centre.

Melbourne's tram system comprises 29 regular revenue routes and the free city circle service, although there are a number of irregular routes and special services.

A $ 2 billion project to redevelop Melbourne's derelict Docklands area to include a new football stadium was also undertaken, in addition to the large CityLink project, a project resurrected from the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan, aimed at linking Melbourne's freeways, easing traffic problems in the inner city, and reducing commuting times from the outer suburbs to the CBD.

A reconstruction of Robert Hoddle's original plans for Melbourne's central grid which defined the early township and today's city centre

Despite a later extension and later inclusion of planned suburbs, Melbourne's original plans were not as extensive as Adelaide's and the city rapidly outgrew its original boundaries.

Bana grew up in Melbourne's Tullamarine, a suburban area on the western edge of the city, near the main airport.

Today Port Phillip is the most densely populated catchment in Australia with an estimated 3 million people living around the bay ; Melbourne's suburbs extend around much of the northern and eastern shorelines, and the city of Geelong sprawls around Corio Bay, in the bay's western arm.

After a cable tram line was extended south from the Melbourne central city area, the seaside area became a popular entertainment precinct for Melbourne's working classes.

In Melbourne the Monash Freeway, which connects Melbourne's suburban sprawl, to the city is usually heavily congested each morning and evening.

As such, the district encompasses the transition between the built and natural environments in Melbourne's east and enjoys a " balance of city and country ".

The city has some of Melbourne's major shopping precincts in Chapel Street, Glenferrie Road, High Street, Malvern Road and Toorak Road, as well as the Chadstone Shopping Centre.

Melton is a city in Victoria, Australia located 35 km west from Melbourne's central business district.

Melton began as a small town before being declared a satellite city in 1974, separated from Melbourne's urban area by a green wedge.

The Western Freeway connects Melton with Melbourne's west runs through the urban area to the south, but bypasses the city centre which is located along High Street, a very wide dual carriageway with service lanes.

Southbank is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, located direct south of the Yarra River, opposite Melbourne's Hoddle Grid.

In 2009, work began to re-develop the southern wing of the library on Little Lonsdale St to create the Wheeler Centre, part of Melbourne's city of literature initiative.

Dandenong is a satellite city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district and the centre of City of Greater Dandenong.

Because it is situated on what many regard as the fringes of Melbourne's popular and much-revived ' inner city ', gentrification has been strong, and property prices are high.

Sunbury () is a regional city, located north-west of Melbourne's central business district, in the state of Victoria, Australia.