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TRAVEL & LIVING IN THE MEGACITY.Submitted BySEJAL NAIK
[GROUP CO-ORDINATOR] KETKI SAWANT SHRADDHA ZAGADE KUNAL SHINDE
MAMATA MHATRE MACLENA GOMES AKHIL PEDNEKAR SHRADHA GUNJITE SILVIYA
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Famous places to visit Arts and festivals History Liveability
Culture Sports
FAMOUS PLACES TO VISIT
Melbourne CBD
Royal botanic gardens
State Library of Victoria and Old Melbourne Gaol
Melbourne's newest landmark: The Southgate Arts and Leisure
Precinct Southern Star Observation Wheel, The Docklands
St Kilda Beach
Melbourne Observation Deck - Rialto Towers
Federation Square
Great Ocean Road
Yarra Valley
ARTS & FESTIVALSMelbourne Fringe Festival Fashion festival
Music week
Melbourne Festival
Spring school holidays
Victorian Seniors Festival
MELBOURNE HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE 19th CENTURY MELBOURNE
HISTORY RUSH YEARS BOOM YEARS AFTER BOOM YEARS EARLY 20th CENTURY
MELBOURNE
FOUNDATION OF MELBOURNE
MELBOURNE HISTORY OF INDEGINOUS PEOPLEIndigenous regional
tribes: Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurong.
30,000-40,000 years.Arrival of Europeans.
Woiwurrung speakers moved out.Today there are only a few
remnants of the Kulin culture .
MELBOURNE LANDING IN 1860
19th CENTURY MELBOURNE CITY1835 - John Batma, a successful
Tasmanian farmer, sails to the mouth of the Yarra. 1840 - Melbourne
City Council is formed; the first Princes Bridge is constructed,
and Melbourne is declared a city by Queen Victoria. 1850 - Victoria
breaks away from New South Wales becomes a separate colony. It is
the Australian centre of wool export.
The Enterprise, the ship of John Pascoe Fawkner landing at
Melbourne
RUSH YEARSGold is discovered in 1851 at Buninyong, near
Ballarat. The population exponentially. of Melbourne grows
Victoria becomes the richest state in Australia.
PEOPLE MIRATING FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF WORLD
"Canvas Town", South Melbourne in the 1850s. Temporary
accommodation for the thousands who poured into Melbourne each week
during the gold rush.
BOOM YEARS40 years of Boom-rapid growth of schools, churches,
learned societies, libraries and art galleries. The first
Australian steam railway is established between Flinders Street and
Port Melbourne; the Queen Victoria Market is founded, and city
streets are lit by gas lighting. The 1850s Melbourne history also
sees the first game of football. In the 1860s, the National Gallery
of Victoria is established.
AFTER THE BOOM1890s most goldfields are exhausted. The Eureka
Stockade, an armed miners revolt over unfair policing and taxation
without representation, makes an important contribution to the
democratic development in Australia. The crash of 1891 brings the
boom to an abrupt end with bank and business failures, and tens of
thousands of workers out of work. Growth in Melbourne stalls, and
Melbourne history shows that by 1905 it has lost its place behind
Sydney as largest city in Australia.
EARLY 20th CENTURY MELBOURNETakes a long time to recover from
the crash.slum areas, organized crime and gang fights spreading
through the inner industrial suburbs. Early, in the new century,
the Australian states form a federation, the Commonwealth of
Australia. Melbourne becomes national capital.
Victoria is home to 5.5 million people with four million living
in the capital city, Melbourne. Consistently ranked as one of the
worlds three most liveable cities by the
Economist Intelligence Unit, Melbourne is Australias fastest
growing capital city.
Melbourne is a comparably young city with 48% of people under 35
years of age Melburnians come from more than 200 nations, and over
half were either born
overseas or have a parent who was born overseas making Melbourne
one of the worlds most multicultural cities. More than a quarter of
Melburnians speak a language other than English at home.
MELBOURNE HOME OF 4 MILLION PEOPLE
Melbourne is called the cultural capital of Australia.
British prime minister, Lord Melbourne.Distinct Victorian
architecture. Chinatown. Western culture.
GARDEN CITY
WESTERN CULTURE
VICTORIAN ART CENTRE
Melbourne was ranked the world's fourth top University City
in 2008The University of Melbourne is the second oldest
university
in Australia.The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked
the
University of Melbourne as the 36th best university in the
world.Monash University was ranked the 178th best university in
the world.
ORMAND COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Host city for the 1956 Summer Olympics games. 2006 Commonwealth
Games. Australian Grand Prix(Formula One). Australian rules
football and cricket are the most popular sports in
Melbourne. Melbourne Cricket Ground is the largest cricket
ground in the
world
MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND
AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL
One of the most popular metropolitans area of the
world. It is also the cultural capital of the world. Important
centers for international affair.
Capital- Albany State symbols: animal beaver (1975) fish brook
trout (1975) gem garnet (1969) flower rose (1955) tree sugar maple
(1956) bird bluebird (1970) insect ladybug (1989) song I Love New
York (1980)
STATUE OF LIBERTY1. Height of copper statue - 46 m 2. Foundation
of pedestal (ground level) to tip of torch - 93 m 3. Heel to top of
head - 34 m
China Town.China Town
MANHATTAN BRIDGE.
Twin Tower.
FLATRON BUILDING.
WELCOME TO PARIS..
CITY FLAG
The Liberation of Paris August 1944
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the
river Seine, in northern France.
Notre Dame de Paris on the River Seine
Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural
centers and its influences in politics, education, entertainment,
media, fashion, science, and the arts.
Population- Paris is one of the most densely populated cities in
the world.
Climate- Paris climate can be described as mild and moderately
wet. Summer days are usually warm and pleasant with fair amount of
sunshine.
Cuisine- Paris cuisine mostly includes: Grown vegetables such as
potato, carrot, eggplant etc. Fungi such as mushrooms, truffle,
porcini .Common fruits such as orange, apple, berries, plums .Meat
such as chicken, turkey, goose, duck, lamb, horse, rabbit, horse
.Fish such as oysters, shrimps, tuna, salmon.
Basil salmon terrine
Foie gras with mustard seeds and green onions in duck
Monuments and landmarks
Notre Dame de Paris
Eiffel Tower
The Paris Catacombs hold the remains of approximately 6 million
people. cemetries
The Htel de Ville, Paris
Galerie Lafayette
The Gare du Nord train station is the busiest in Europe
Entertainment and performing arts paris opera
Sports-Paris most popular sport clubs are the association
football club Paris Saint-Germain FC, the basketball team
Paris-Levallois Basket, and the rugby union club Stade Franais.
FASHION WEEK
Chicago
Welcome to Chicago, the third largest city in the United States,
with a population of nearly three million people.
Chicago produced the first Roller skates in 1884
Chicago produced the first Elevated railway in 1892
Chicago produced the first Steelframed skyscraper in 1885
MILLENIUM PARK
The Chicago
Fountain Buckingham is at the center of Grant Park.
SkyDeck Chicagos
Chicago Cultural Centre
The Grand Victoria
Casino is located in Elgin, Illinois, just 45 minutes from
downtown Chicago, and offers a wide variety of gambling and
entertainment options.
Chicago sports baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer,
horseracing, running
MUMBAI.
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA..
POPULATION
BEACHS
JUHU BEACH
GLOBAL VIPASANA PAGODA
NEHRU SCIENCE CENTRE.
HAJI ALI DARGAH
BANDSTAND
Chhatrapati Shivaji terminal
GATEWAY OF INDIA
CONCLUSION
We hope that you have enjoyed your Time visitingthe Mega cities
of the World.
THANK YOU.