Should Bangkok be a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organisation

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (suchas forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical / naturalsignificance. A World Heritage Site is a cultural ornatural conserved site that the world communityregards as having outstanding universal value

Famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites

1. Pyramids – Giza in Egypt 2. Statue of Liberty – NYC in USA3. Acropolis – Athens in Greece4. Palace of Westminster – London in UK5. Uluru – Australia6. Lake Turkana NP - Kenya

World Heritage Sites

http://whc.unesco.org/en/254

Using the link look at the World Heritage SiteInteractive map:1.How are the sites spread across the world?2.Pick a couple of examples and say where they

are and why they are WHS?

Ayutthaya - ThailandWhy is this a World Heritage Site?

This area is just outsideBangkok and has beendeclared a WHS in 1991. It wasthe second Siamesecapital after Sukhothai.These are prang or towersand the area has largemonasteries. This is whatremains after the Burmesedestroyed it in the 18th

Century

So Bangkok…..

From what you know about Bangkok, should itbe declared a WHC?

Use the 10 statements, read through and decideif any of them can be applied to the city.

Overall should Bangkok become a UNESCOWHC? Explain your decision.