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Garden City is a residential area of Melbourne located in the most westerly part of Port Melbourne, 5km south-west of the Melbourne CBD, generally bounded by what is now Williamstown Road, Howe Parade, and Walter Street. It was the first housing estate created by a public authority in Victoria, developed in stages by the State Bank of Victoria between 1926 and 1948.

The name is sometimes also applied to the adjacent estate built by the Housing Commission of Victoria in 1938-1942, one of their first projects.

The area, between the bay and the lower reach of the Yarra River, originally consisted of low lying marshy undeveloped land. As early as the 1850s some fisherman lived in huts near the river, and the area became known as Fishermen's Bend. When the river was regularised by the construction of the Coode Canal in 1884-6, the excavated silt was used for land reclamation in this area. The northern part later hosted various industries and shipping functions, while the southern part beyond Princes Pier remained undeveloped.

As part of a growing concern with overcrowded 'slum' housing stock in older suburbs before WWI, the State Government encouraged local Councils to build social housing, and in 1912, the former City of Port Melbourne planned a scheme in the Montague district, which never eventuated. After WWI they then lobbied the State Government to provide social housing on the unused land at Fishermen's Bend, but the Melbourne Harbor Trust resisted. The state government controlled State Savings Bank then took up the Council proposal, and purchased 10 acres in 1926, another 20 acres in 1927, and a further 14 acres in 1928, bounded by Williamstown Road, Howe Parade, and Walter Street.
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