Paola Favaro is a Senior Lecturer in the Architecture program in the School of Built Environment at UNSW. She is a graduate of the IUAV University of Venice and teaches and publishes on architecture and urban design and their historical and current roles in solving design problems related to the 21st-century city. Robert Freestone is a Professor of Planning in the School of Built Environment at UNSW. His main research interests are in planning history, metropolitan planning, urban design, and heritage. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, Australian Academy of Humanities, the Planning Institute of Australia and the Institute of Australian Geographers.