However the club also hosts home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium ( currently also known by its sponsorship name as " Etihad Stadium ").

It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, but plays its home matches at the nearby Docklands Stadium.

The Club draws its supporter base from this traditionally working class area and plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium in the Melbourne Docklands area, also in the city's inner-west.

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.

The size of the Melbourne Docklands area meant that political influences were inescapable.

It is based at Princes Park in Carlton, and played its home matches there throughout most of its history, but currently plays its home matches at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In March 2010 Richard tried for the world record of putting a round of golf in the dark at the Black Light Mini Golf in The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia.

* In Australia, the first edition of the Melbourne edition of Seven News is produced at the station's new Docklands studios.

The 2012 Australian Dragon Boat Championships will be held in the Docklands of Melbourne, Victoria.

Architecture inspired by the café wall illusion, at Melbourne Docklands.

Many luxury apartments at New Quay in Melbourne Docklands, Australia come with boat Mooring ( watercraft ) | moorings

Urban renewal areas like Docklands, Southbank, St Kilda Road and Port Melbourne are now predominately apartments.

* Melbourne Docklands, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Melbourne's CBD from: en: Melbourne Docklands | Docklands at twilight

Major inner-city urban renewal has occurred in areas such as Southbank, Port Melbourne, Melbourne Docklands and more recently, South Wharf.

A bronze statue was unveiled at Melbourne Docklands in January 2009.

Bronze statue of Dame Edna at Waterfront City, Docklands, Melbourne

Detail of the three-dimensional frieze at the base of the Nolan building in Melbourne's Melbourne Docklands # NewQuay | NewQuay Docklands, inspired by Nolan's abstracted depiction of Ned Kelly's helmet and the Australian landscape

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

After the release of Melbourne 2030 in 2001, the state government legislated growth boundaries to limit urban sprawl.

The museum is a rich response to Melbourne ’ s urban condition, and provides a place for education, history, culture and society to engage with each other in a contemporary setting.

Other than sections within the urban areas of Sydney and Melbourne, the Hume Highway is dual carriageway or freeway standard for its full length in Victoria and nearly all of New South Wales ; a single carriageway section through the town of Holbrook remains.

Public housing in Australia was common in the larger cities, particularly in Melbourne ( by the Housing Commission of Victoria ) where a huge number of hi-rise housing commission flats were built between the 1950s and 1970s by successive governments as part of an urban renewal program.

Despite lack of a progressive economy, general lack of government funding for public services such as public transport, and continued unsustainable urban growth, the city has seen sustained growth in its cultural institutions such as art, music, literature, performance, etc., as many contributors to and patrons of the arts relocate to Melbourne amongst excellent independent community support structures such as press and radio and a thriving cultural community.

Similar schemes were previously implemented but only on bypass or outer ring urban freeways in several cities around the world: Toronto in 1997 ( Highway 407 ), several roads in Norway ( AutoPASS ), Melbourne in 2000 ( CityLink ), and Tel Aviv also in 2000 ( Highway 6 ).

In some places Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos appear to have adapted to humans and they can often be seen in parts of urban Sydney and Melbourne.

It has adapted well to the urban environment and is common in suburban Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

It contains some outer northern suburbs of Melbourne and rural localities beyond the urban area.

The area was declared a satellite city in 1974 and a green belt existed between it and the urban area of Melbourne until the late 1990s.

Contemporary Docklands is the product of an ongoing urban renewal project to extend the area of the Melbourne CBD ( excluding Southbank and St Kilda Road ) by over a third when completed around 2015.

The formerly industrial Port Melbourne has been subject to intense urban renewal over the past decade.

CityLink is a system of tolled urban Highways in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Emerald is a town and semi-rural locality in the Greater Melbourne area, Victoria, Australia, 44 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district, outside the urban area.

Williamson's work as a playwright focuses on themes of politics, loyalty and family in contemporary urban Australia, particularly in two of its major cities, Melbourne and Sydney.

The suburb was the subject of urban renewal in the early 1990s, aimed at stimulating development in a period when Melbourne was experiencing an economic downturn.

Cranbourne South is a rural locality in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 45 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district adjacent to the Melbourne urban area.

Bangholme is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district and adjacent to the urban area.

It is currently undergoing major transit oriented urban renewal which was first planned in the Melbourne 2030 strategy.

It became part of the Melbourne urban agglomeration during the 1980s.

Similarly, two years later Murdoch was called to Melbourne to give the Prime Minister of Australia his views on the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

He was told he would not be offered a contract renewal, likely to his disappointment, after having stated earlier in the month that he wanted to spend another year in Melbourne.