Someone sort-of did that here. Even though it's all grid power/flush toilets, there's a community here called "Heartwood". Kind of a neat idea.. It's a bunch of houses/apartment/condo things all close together, no backyards or frontyards but a community park and a community building for having parties/weddings etc in. When something needs to be done, like build playground equipment or gravel walkways, the community people get together and do it. One of the things I really liked is that you can't park a car within about 100 yds of a lot of these houses. There's little community push-carts laying around everywhere to get the groceries from the car to the house. It makes the whole thing more walking-friendly and forces a guy to wave at his neighbor as he's pushing his cart full of groceries up to the doorstep. Unfortunately, capitalism rules and these custom built strawbale homes are selling for about a quarter million USD. So it's a neat little commune for the rich. Junk collectin', windmill buildin', homebrew wirin', types need not apply. They'd probably have some sort of rule that I couldn't keep 25 vehicles laying around so it's not for me.
