Editing Hoddle Grid (section)

==Use of the phrase==

The term 'Hoddle Grid' emerged in common use only in the 21st century. While it has long been well known that Robert Hoddle surveyed the first officially published plan of the central grid of streets most commonly referred to as 'the City', it was not traditionally named after him. In the 19th and early 20th Century the focus was more on [[Collins Street, Melbourne|Collins Street]], the grandest thoroughfare, with the most expensive and exclusive buildings along its length, while the western and northern edges  comprised unremarkable low rise residential and light industrial development.

By the 1950s the phrase 'Golden Mile' comes into use, describing Collins Street itself.<ref>{{cite news|title=Green Heart Plan in City|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/72534530?searchTerm=melbourne%20%22golden%20mile%22&searchLimits=l-state=Victoria|access-date=11 June 2017|publisher=The Argus|date=7 February 1956}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=City has Glamour after Dark|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/72534530?searchTerm=melbourne%20%22golden%20mile%22&searchLimits=l-state=Victoria|access-date=11 June 2017|publisher=The Argus|date=19 February 1954}}</ref>

The "Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Report", published by the Board of Works in 1954 refers to the area as 'The Central Business Area'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme 1954: Report|url=https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne/melbourne-metropolitan-planning-scheme-1954-report|website=Policy and Strategy - Planning for Melbourne|publisher=DELWP|access-date=11 June 2017}}</ref>

The phrase 'CBD' or Central Business District appears in the 1960s, probably within the publication of the 'Borrie Report' in 1964, and the subsequent Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme, enacted in 1968.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Borrie|first1=E.F.|title=Report on a planning scheme for the central business area of the City of Melbourne|date=1964|publisher=Melbourne City Council|location=Melbourne}}</ref> CBD is still the most common phrase to refer to the central grid area of Melbourne.

Official planning strategies in the 1980s and 90s did not use the phrase 'Hoddle Grid'; for instance the State Government's "Central Melbourne : Framework for the Future", published December 1984, identifies it as 'the formal city grid' (p25), while the City of Melbourne's 'Grids and Greenery', published 1987, picks out the skewed grid of streets in various graphics, but only names it as 'the city centre'.

More recently the Encyclopedia of Melbourne, published in book form in 2005, and online in 2008, calls it the "City Grid', while another entry on Roads, describing the wider subdivision of Melbourne, calls the central area 'the Hoddle grid'.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lay|first1=M.G.|title=Roads|url=http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01255b.htm|website=Encyclopaedia of Melbourne|publisher=School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne|access-date=11 June 2017}}</ref>

The phrase appeared in ''[[The Age]]'' newspaper as early as 2002.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Millar|first1=Royce|title=The well-heeled, sterile city blues|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&kw=hoddle+grid&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=AGE020706FVTL862LKKE|access-date=11 June 2017|publisher=The Age|date=6 July 2002}}</ref>