Perth City

Perth stretches north to south along the Swan River. Perth as a whole is about 70 km along the coast and 20 km inland up to the base of the hills. Perth city itself is not very big.The east side has the WACA cricket ground, you then move west past the Mint and the RC Cathedral into the CBD with the main shopping malls, and then onwards to King's Park. I think you could walk from one side to the other in less than an hour. There are two main parallel streets Murray Street and Hay Street, both stretch from one end of Perth city to another, also running parallel to both of these are Wellington Street and St. George's Terrace.
The former two form the main shopping streets and Central Business District. Although the streets stretch from one end of Perth to the other, the CBD is only small and covers about the same area as Portsmouth Commercial Road and is probably in total much smaller than Southampton shopping centre. Both streets interlink with one another with arcades, Carillion arcade, Picadilly arcade, The Plaza and London Court. London Court is based on a medieval style street with an old fashioned clock that strikes and a medieval knight rides round on his horse!
The centre, again, is a real cafe culture. The shops are of the same type that we would have in England albeit, some have different names. Most of the makes and styles of the retail goods and cosmetic goods are the same as in England, however, some of our cheaper makes are Australia's expensive makes and possibly visa versa, although I found everything marginally more expensive than I could buy in UK. For instance, before I came out to Oz I thought I would buy a new pair of training shoes over here as I thought not only would they be better but they would also be cheaper. That was not to be so, the same trainers are probably $30-$50 dollars cheaper in the UK.
The good thing about Perth are the cat buses. I didn't use them as I walked everywhere, but you can jump on and off these buses and they are free. They will take you to different areas of interest quickly and easily.