What makes Bath special

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What makes Bath special?
What do you think?
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What do other people think?

• David Pye Chair of Moorland Road Trade
  Association
• Tony Crouch World Heritage Manager
• Joanna Robinson Architecture Officer for the
  Bath Preservation Trust
• Peter Andrews Transition Bath, an organisation
  that aims to promote sustainable living
• Kate Burakowski Education Officer

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In 1987 the City of Bath became a World Heritage
Site. To enable this to happen, the local
council had to persuade the member states of
UNESCO that the city was of Outstanding Universal
Value.
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What do you think Outstanding Universal Value
means?How would you decide if a place was of
Outstanding Universal Value?
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The outstanding universal values that Bath
demonstrates are that it

• Represents a masterpiece of human creative
  genius
• Exhibits an important interchange of human values
  on developments in architecture and town
  planning
• Is an outstanding example of an architectural
  ensemble which illustrates significant stages in
  human history.

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This really means that Bath is recognised for

• The Roman remains (Roman Baths)
• The town planning of the Georgian City
• The quality of the architecture (Neo-Classical)
  in particular the quality of some set-pieces
  (Queen Square, The Circus and Royal Crescent)

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Do you think that these things make Bath a place
of outstanding universal value?
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What does World Heritage mean to Bath?

• David Pye Chair of Moorland Road Trade
  Association
• Tony Crouch World Heritage Manager
• Joanna Robinson Architecture Officer
• Peter Andrews Transition Bath
• Kate Burakowski Education Officer