"Magic Melbourne" by Charles Billich and an illustrated view up Lonsdale Street from 1962 by Harold Freedman, famous for painting the Spencer Street mural. The illustration is of this view at a similar time. "Magic Melbourne" is a collage of Melbourne buildings much like these.
The books were "The best of The Age 1979-1980" for $3 and "Australia, The Fifth Continent photographed by Ern McQuillan" which is full of awesome little factlets of early 70s Australia as well as a lot of aerial photos of Australian cities and towns. It thought a photograph of Ballarat was Adelaide. Easy mistake to make in 1972.