Travel + Leisure annual survey on America's Best Cities

has a section on Public Transportation and Pedestrian friendliness. Here are the top 10:

1 Portland, OR
2 San Francisco
3 Chicago
4 Savannah
5 Boston
6 Washington, D.C.
7 New Orleans
8 New York City
9 Denver
10 Seattle

-- Full survey

I wonder if this is a proxy for urban-ness/urban design, If so it might mean that people like places smaller than New York City...