[magikaram]

It's been well documented that the large set back front yards and loads of anti-pedestrian designed neighborhoods and towns have largely been the cause for issues relating to poor public transportation, heat island effects, and less affordable housing.

You can have nice gardens, double parking spots & a garage without the same designed towns and neighborhoods. Most often is done by limiting street parking, narrower streets, and using the rear-entrance drives and lots as done in many cities.

Those designs also enable more pedestrian friendliness vs. the suburban sprawl that is effectively carpeting the U.S. and Canada since the 40's.

[toss1]

>>heat island effects are not caused by yards and vegetation, but by expanses of dark asphalt and dark roofs. More vegetation vs roads/lots, and roof area is the cure, not the cause.

>>Most often is done by limiting street parking, narrower streets, and using the rear-entrance drives and lots as done in many cities.

YES, limiting on-street parking is huge.

[citrin_ru]

If there are trees on both sides of a residential street it will not be a heat island even with on-street parking. But it seems to me many Americans don’t like trees and prefer open spaces (which inevitably work as heat islands).