Agree this is mostly dead in America. It's one of the reasons my family settled down where we did. Phoenix Arizona has many master planned communities designed

Agree this is mostly dead in America. It's one of the reasons my family settled down where we did. Phoenix Arizona has many master planned communities designed around this lifestyle. Our neighborhood has an "interior" grassy/park like section with trails that wind and twist for 22 miles connecting all of the streets. In the center of that is our local school. Most houses are within two blocks of an entrance to the trails, and you'll see kids out running and playing all day. In the mornings you see the kiddos all commuting by foot to school - many wait on the corner to meet up with their friends before starting off on the walk. I know of at least two other master planned communities that have the same setup with a central school. Wish more of suburbia was built like this. It's a way of life that is worth more than the value of my home to me.