Admittedly, there's a desire for me to be able to have sizable lawn to continue to foster and adopt abused and/or neglected dogs (fostered 5 and counting, one adopted he's a 50kg cuddly play thing... Seriously. Get a big dog and surprise yourself).
But, even I don't need a large lawn for that. I need something large enough that it isn't required to clean daily to prevent my furbabies rolling around in their own filth.
The urban sprawl, two tier property system in Australia is terrible for this. Houses have huge lawns or none. And the areas neglected more so than most for lack of shared greenspace have huge homes and huge lawns with less and less dedicated public spaces.
Atypical of wealthy suburbs actually (I'm looking at you, Tarragindi) there's little public recreational area because when the suburbs were designed in the 60's, home owners put fences up and declared it mine.
Edit: too many words or too little.