Thousands of tourists flock to Melbourne's laneways every day for a glimpse of the city's street art. But few realise that the artists behind the colourful murals are working in a legal "grey area ...

Open any guidebook on the Australian city of Melbourne and it will no doubt tell you to explore its “famous laneways.” Here's what to explore off the beaten path.

Does it have the laneways that would allow it to replicate Melbourne’s small-bar culture? CA: Sydney never had a large laneway system because it has a different urban morphology to Melbourne. Many of ...

But there are some 1,700 laneways in the City of Melbourne and Ms McPherson, who like millions of others lives and works in the city, says life in a laneway can be "intense". "It's hectic," she said.

Alameda Place, a laneway that runs behind retail strip Parkdale Village in the seaside suburb of Parkdale, in Melbourne’s South, doesn’t have the profile of AC/DC Lane in the CBD, but it does ...

An important part of the city's heritage infrastructure, Melbourne's famous bluestone laneways have finally been granted better heritage protection. Edwards Pavers Edwards Pavers MELBOURNE ...

Stephanie Trigg receives funding from the Australian Research Council. If we think of the bluestone in Melbourne, we may first think of the famous cobbled laneways intersecting the urban grid ...

Does it have the laneways that would allow it to replicate Melbourne’s small-bar culture? CA: Sydney never had a large laneway system because it has a different urban morphology to Melbourne. Many of ...

In one laneway, people sip wine at a table under a heater. In another, someone is crouched behind a bin, ready to inject. In Melbourne’s famous laneways, there is life – and death ...

Melbourne's reputation as Australia's cultural capital is piquing interest from those in America to China. Are we at all surprised? Whether it's our lively theatre scene, historic laneways, or art ...