Around where I live, fairly well all of the houses are standalone buildings with reasonable sized yards.
Some of them have impeccable lawns. I can tell, because our house is two storey. And there’s some very nice green areas on google maps.
One neighbour around the corner is different though. No open green space there. It’s all cover up. “Messy”.
Because they have a permaculture-based system running. It’s pretty awesome.
A family friend built a new house with no lawn. Raised garden beds and wildflowers. Their opinion was that the ground was meant to grow food, not grass. And food for bees counted as well.
Plus, they lived next to a large public park.
And there’s the rub: Access to excellent public spaces is critical if we are going to give up our tiny backyard fiefdoms of manicured pasture and make some good (food) come from the dirt instead.