Ideal city refers to a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with the dictates of some "rational" or "moral" objective.
Famous quotes containing the words ideal and/or city:
“You’ll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you’ve got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labour, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)