Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront - Paperbackby Kim Dovey (Author) Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay. As the financial and industrial centre of Australia, in the late nineteenth century, Melbourne developed a new world exuberance. Yet the twentieth century saw Melbourne suffering from a declining industrial and economic base. The city in the 1980s was de