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Originally Posted by Obadno
Totally with you Steely, I like living urban but I cant imagine having a dog without an accompanying yard, much less kids. Its not good urban form at all but being able to wander out into the desert from sun up to sun down was a big part of my childhood and I wouldn't want to deprive that kind of freedom and access to nature from my kids.
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Do you mean a garden or a yard?
Single family homes in urban neighborhoods (Brooklyn, most of London) often have a small garden, but if you have a “yard” big enough for even a child to run around in, you are probably in suburbia.
I would find a large yard pretty useless and a chore, compared to having a very good large urban park, where I can go for a several mile run or walk the dog, practically on my doorstep as I do now. Both would be fine, but if I had to pick between one and the other I would definitely choose the world class park. That’s something a lot of newer cities are also lacking.
And suburban sprawl actually creates more distance between the city and nature. Someone in central Paris is a lot closer, in time and distance, to the countryside than someone in central Chicago. The person in central Chicago has to get through a lot more sprawl, whereas urban Paris meets rural France very abruptly by American standards.