David Byrne on the perfect city

Album cover, "More songs about buildings and food," The Talking Heads.

David Byrne of the band the Talking Heads has not only designed bicycle racks for New York City, but has written his thoughts on the perfect city in today's Weekend Journal section of the Wall Street Journal, "A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City: Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis." He covers:

• size
• density
• sensibility & attitude
• security
• chaos & danger
• human scale
• parking
• boulevards
• mixed use
• public spaces