British musician Davide Byrne gives his vision of a perfect city, a combination of size; density; sensibility and attitude; security; chaos and danger; human scale; parking; boulevards; mixed use and public spaces.
Here’s an excerpt of the his article “A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City” published on the Wall Street Journal september 11 2009

“There’s an old joke that you know you’re in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it’s the other way around you’re in hell. In an attempt to conjure up a perfect city, I imagine a place that is a mash-up of the best qualities of a host of cities. The permutations are endless. Maybe I’d take the nightlife of New York in a setting like Sydney’s with bars like those in Barcelona and cuisine from Singapore served in outdoor restaurants like those in Mexico City”

Read the full article here