If it was all up to a child's imagination

While walking down Hope Street I heard a young child scream followed by a dog barking and small child-like laughter. I looked through a gap in a fence to see a child smiling and playing with her pet dog. The yard that this young child was playing in was pretty much all made of concrete. I was thinking about this and came to the thought; "what happened to the days in which parents would take their children to the park or having a barkyard with a lawn?" These days most of our houses are surrounded by roads, houses and more roads, with our community parks becoming smaller in size until thay are reduced to nothing.