This is a photograph of a street in Bath, England. Which street? It doesn't matter...just about any street in Bath proper has some example of delightful architecture. I am normally skeptical of severe preservation restrictions, but for this city I think there is considerable value in keeping things as they are.
It is worth noting that the Bath of English tradition started off as a curiosity and then rather quickly established its reputation as a den of iniquity, vice and loose morals. The gorgeous, Palladian inspired architecture was the consequence of developers who lacked scruples and a cabal of designers armed with some pattern books and a Messianic devotion to a particular decorative style.
We are all better off because of it. At least I like to believe that.
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