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Since the 1830s, Collins Street has been Melbourne's most famous, most elegant street. Besides being a commercial, financial and civic centre, the street became an important site of social display: if you were not seen `doing the Block' between Elizabeth and Swanston Streets at the end of the nineteenth century, you did not have a social life. In the twenty-first century, Collins Street continues to be Melbourne's most important street. It is the address of Australia's tallest building, the Rialto Towers, along with a diverse range of Melbourne's more diminutive but equally splendid urban architecture. Judith Buckrich is a leading author in the field of Melbourne's urban development. Her previous titles include the best-selling history of St Kilda Road.