Perth; What makes a decent city?

Right, I've finally made it to WA. After the outback adventure, it's back into city life. Perth is the most isolated capital city in the world, but it seems to be coping just fine. The skyscrapers glimmer against the blue sky, people jog along the swan river and catch up with the gossip at a pavement side cafe.

WA has the highest economic growth and the lowest unemployment of all Australia, and the locals seemed pretty chuffed with their lot. From the vantage point of glorious Kings Park, overlooking the CBD, I started wondering what makes some cities better than others.

Any city can win me over, and be guaranteed my love and devotion for ever if it gets a few of the following right.
1) You've got to be able to walk around it (Berlin yes; LA, no!). You don't get any sense of a place sitting behind a wheel of a car in 4 lanes of traffic.
2) Have at least one bonkers architect run riot (Barcelona and Gaudi for example). Do not have uniform buildings or you'll end up looking like San Jose, or worse Coventry.
3) Make sure you have a decent city park. Perth is a good example, Kings Park has great views and interesting design. Vancouver's' Stanley park is also fantastic. Imagine London without Hyde Park or Hamstead Heath? I'd rather not. One exception to this rule is Paris. It has no decent central parks, but it has the Seine and 'Shakespeare & Co' so I'll let it off.
4) A good place to have a drink or three. The best way to get to know the locals is over a beer/bottle of wine. Seville is great for this, as is Bangkok. Try getting drunk in Denver? It's bloody hard, which is why it sucks.
5) Culture! Throw a festival and I'll buy a ticket. Edinburgh shrugs off it's stuffy image and goes mad in August, Austin TX is brilliant because of SXSW. Geneva on the other hand just has banks - boo!
6) Throw in a couple of good cafe's, second hand bookstores and record shops ( "Do you have anything that goes 'Beep la la, love, beep' I think it's on a white lable?") and I'm more smitten than a teenage crush.

It's that easy, go on cities of the world, what are you waiting for!