At eye level the good city provides opportunities for walking, staying, meeting and expression, and that means it must provide good scale and good climate. Common to these desired objectives and quality requirements is that they deal largely with physical and practical matters. In contrast, work with the city’s visual quality is more general. It deals largely with the design and detail of individual elements, and how all the elements are coordinated. Visual quality involves total visual expression, aesthetics, design and architecture. City space can be designed so that all practical requirements are met, but randomly combined details, materials and colors rob it of visual coordination. In contrast, city space can be designed with dominating emphasis on aesthetics to the neglect of functional aspects. That the space is beautiful and the details carefully designed is a quality in itself, but far from enough if basic requirements for security, climate, and opportunities for staying are not met. The important aspects of city space must be interwoven into a convincing whole.