Managing Historic Cities.

The city of Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987, the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh in 1995. At the dates of their inscription, management plans were not required by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as part of the nomination process. Although management guidelines for world cultural heritage sites have been published, these do not offer a template for the holistic heritage-driven management of complex urban sites at the scale of Bath or Edinburgh. Management plans for the Bath and Edinburgh World Heritage Sites have now been published. Following on from this author's paper ‘The World Heritage Convention and the Exemplary Management of Complex Heritage Sites’ in the Journal of Architectural Conservation, this paper aims to: summarize the approach and key issues that have been addressed in these two management plans - including aspects of their implementation; relate these to the expectations of the World Heritage Convention and other international agendas; and comment on the extent to which these management plans provide models for complex urban sites elsewhere, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]