Brisbane central business district

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Brisbane CBD
Brisbane, Queensland

A map of the Brisbane central business district located on a curve of the Brisbane River.

Population:

2,327 (2004) ^[1]

Postcode:

4000

Area:

0.7 km² (0.3 sq mi)

LGA:

Brisbane City Council, Central Ward

State District:

Brisbane Central

Federal Division:

Brisbane

Suburbs around Brisbane CBD:
Red Hill and Paddington	Spring Hill	Fortitude Valley
Milton	Brisbane CBD	New Farm
South Brisbane	Woolloongabba	Kangaroo Point

The Brisbane central business district (CBD), or 'the City' is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River. The triangular shaped area is bounded by the Brisbane River to the east, south and west. The point, known at its tip as Gardens Point, slopes upward to the north-west where 'the city' is bounded by parkland and the inner city suburb of Spring Hill to the north. The City is bounded to the north-east by the suburb of Fortitude Valley.

1 Geography
2 Attractions
3 Transport
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Geography

Aerial view of the central business district (top) from the east.

The City is laid out according to a grid pattern surveyed during the city's early colonial days, a feature typical of most Australian street patterns. As a general rule, the streets aligned northwest-south east are named after male members of the House of Hanover, while the northeast-south west aligned streets are named after female members. Queen Street was the central roadway, that was turned into a pedestrian mall. It forms the pivotal axis for the grid of roads within the district.

Brisbane central business district is at coordinates 27°27′45″S 153°01′28″E / -27.46251, 153.02432Coordinates: 27°27′45″S 153°01′28″E / -27.46251, 153.02432

[edit] Attractions

The City contains many tall office buildings occupied by corporations and government departments. The areas around the Queen Street Mall and Adelaide Street is primarily a retail precinct. A legal precinct exists around the various court buildings located around the intersections of George Street and Adelaide and Ann Streets. A financial district is forming in the area around Eagle Street, known locally as The Golden Triangle.^{[citation needed]}

The southern end of the CBD is the location of Queensland's Parliament House, the Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point Campus and the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens.

[edit] Transport

Kangaroo Point, the Brisbane CBD and the D'Aguilar Range in the distance.

By Road, three road bridges connect the CBD with the southern bank of the Brisbane River: the Captain Cook Bridge, the Victoria Bridge, and the William Jolly Bridge. The Story Bridge connects Fortitude Valley with Kangaroo Point and provides access to the city from the southern bank. The Captain Cook Bridge connects the Pacific Motorway, south of the river, with the Riverside Expressway which runs along the south western edge of the City.

By bicycle and foot, the Goodwill Bridge allows cross river access to South Bank.