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:
“The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)