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〖中文版〗
长期以来墨尔本Docklands都被嘲笑是一个失败的规划。
当所有的注意力都集中在羽翼未丰的Docklands弱点时,该港区已悄然成为国家的经济重点引擎区。
Grattan研究所的新报告,映射折澳大利亚经济:作为城市繁荣的动力所在,Docklands区仅次于珀斯的中央商务区。Docklands就业人员中一半以上在金融和保险工作，时薪103澳币，整个墨尔本全市的平均时薪53澳币。
基于的分析数据,去年人口普查和统计局的国民经济核算,显示一名工人在珀斯的侧重矿业CBD时薪为124澳币。该报告合著者之一,Paul Donegan说墨尔本CBD向外延伸,新建的广阔新办公金融圈仍然与市中心密切相关。
他说墨尔本会因这片土地成为一个悉尼的强有力竞争对手，“这要是在20年前会是非常可笑的,”他说。
近年来银行包括澳新银行和NAB,Medibank Private（私人健康保险）以及保险公司AXA和已经搬到Docklands，一半以上的就业者为管理人员或专业人士。
该报告还揭示了Donegan先生说的是“一个伟大的澳大利亚经济地舆重塑”。1901年,三分之一的工作在农业、林业、渔业、采矿等。二战后,制造业增长成为澳大利亚的主导产业,雇佣劳动力的四分之一。报告说,到2011年,78%的劳动力为服务型。
规划和房地产顾问Michael Barlow就是在1990年代积极参与创建Docklands的主任。“我想年复一年,没有人准备给Docklands一个机会,”他说。“但一个新区域规划总是需要时间…你需要给它30年的时间才能去合理评价。”他说,虽然许多人对Docklands的印象非常消极，“这是一个近水临港的区域，因此它总是风云莫测。”现在已经有些可以看到光明的未来。
其中之一的Bar Nacional，其经理Chris Barrett，它在柯林斯街9月开业,2013年,员工每天早上亲眼目睹Docklands的飙升。
“我们清晨很早开业,直到10点才下班,所以我们早上看到这一切,从下午4点开始看到反向波,”他说。当他告诉朋友他在Docklands工作“有一点点的窃笑”,由于该地区原本的名声。“但是这些意识慢慢发生了改变,”他说。
Restaurant manager Chris Barrett. Photo: Jason South
〖英文原版〗
For more than a decade Melbourne has derided Docklands as a failed planning experiment.
But while all the attention has focused on the fledgling suburb's shortcomings, Docklands has quietly become one of the nation's economic engine rooms.
A new report by the Grattan Institute, Mapping Australia’s economy: cities as engines of prosperity, identifies Docklands as second only to Perth's central business district in terms of wealth generation.
Docklands employees – more than half of whom work in finance and insurance – generate an average $103 worth of goods and services for every hour worked. The average for the entire Melbourne city-wide area was $53 an hour.
The figures, based on an analysis of the last Census and the Bureau of Statistics' National Accounts, found a worker in Perth's mining-focused CBD generates $124 an hour.
One of the report's co-authors, Paul Donegan, said Docklands had allowed Melbourne's CBD to stretch out, providing room for sprawling new office complexes still closely linked to the city centre.
He said while there was not enough evidence to make a thorough comparison, this land availability was likely a factor in Melbourne becoming a credible competitor to Sydney's economic activity. "That would have been laughable 20 years ago," he said.
In recent years banks including ANZ and NAB, as well as insurers AXA and Medibank Private, have moved to Docklands (as has Fairfax Media, on its Spencer Street fringe), and more than half of Docklands' employees are classified managers or professionals.
The report also reveals what Mr Donegan said was "a great reshaping of Australia's economic geography". In 1901, one in three jobs was in agriculture, forestry, fishing or mining. After World War II, manufacturing rose to become Australia's dominant industry, employing a quarter of the workforce. By 2011, the report said 78 per cent of the workforce provided services of one form or another.
Michael Barlow, a director of planning and property consultants Urbis, was heavily involved in the creation of Docklands in the 1990s.
"I've thought for years and years that no one is prepared to give Docklands a chance," he said. "But a new suburb always takes time ... you need to give it 30 years before you judge it."
He said that while many had developed a very negative view of Docklands – "it is right on the water so it's always going to be windy" – some could now see a brighter future.
Among them is Chris Barrett, restaurant manager of Bar Nacional. It opened in Collins Street in September, 2013, and its staff see firsthand each morning the surge of workers to Docklands.
"We open quite early in the morning and we're here until 10pm, so we see it all in the morning, and you see the reverse waves from 4pm," he said.
When he tells friends he works in Docklands "there is a little bit of a snicker there", because of the area's reputation. "But awareness that something is happening here is growing," he said.
