You can have that kind of detached house with a yard, but the thing is you have to be careful in where you place it. Look at towns built or expanded between 191

You can have that kind of detached house with a yard, but the thing is you have to be careful in where you place it. Look at towns built or expanded between 1910 and 1950 and you'll see that often times there were single streets of houses sandwiched between denser parts of the city laid out in a grid so those houses wouldn't be excluded or isolated. Those pre-suburban streets were connected to larger roads on either end that were lined with shops, schools, and industry. It's in stark contrast to the suburban hell of houses being packed into winding dead-end streets spread out across miles and miles like the plasmodium of a slime mould. Cul-de-sacs shouldn't exist in a good layout created from scratch because a cul-de-sac means you failed to utilize the space correctly and make the area human traversable.