Another nice trend is street level shops and restaurants mixed with housing above. This fights the "estate for everyone" mcmansion trend that separates people.
FYI this is how most non-american towns and cities have been designed for … ever? Go into any European old town center and it’s full of street level shops with residential on the floors above. Judging from popular photos, much of Asia and Africa are like this as well.
But I’m probably biased because I grew up in a city and regularly visited grandparents with legit farms. If you’re gonna have land, it should support at least a decent-sized garden … maybe a few fruit trees, nice shed, couple chickens.
You definitely don’t want a yard that’s spitting distance to your neighbors’ house, that’s just silly.
I don't care about having land (nor yard - I especially don't want to take care of one), but detached house is the only way to have loud and/or space intensive hobbies (playing music with drums, karaoke, machine shop). Invent magic sound-isolating material and I'd prefer large flats in buildings, for easy access to everything.
And I’ve lived in detached suburban houses where you can hear your neighbors sneeze.
That seems much easier than the examples I mentioned. I would like you to be right though, and if you are - that it was more common.
> And I’ve lived in detached suburban houses where you can hear your neighbors sneeze.
True, but at least you have some control over soundproofing if you own the entire thing and if that's something you care about.
This is not intended to be like open plan office seating, where nobody can escape. This should be combined with appropriate quiet places too.
Open plan living plus individual bedrooms and things like den/study/second lounge, etc gives flexibility.