St Vincent Place gardens: Where landscape becomes townscape.

The local government area of South Melbourne, initially known as Emerald Hill, located immediately south of Melbourne's central 'Hoddle Grid', was one of the earliest 'suburbs' outside the Melbourne CBD. As per the town planning style of the early 1850s, the streets were laid out in a grid pattern, albeit in this case somewhat wider than the norm, thanks to the work of Robert Hoddle and Robert Russell. But around 1854, a significant deviation from the grid was introduced that created St Vincent Place: a landscaped square onto which houses faced, somewhat reminiscent of the famous squares of Georgian London and others such as Edinburgh, Bath and Bristol. Today St Vincent Gardens is one of the most coveted real estate locations in Melbourne. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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