Mitä meistä tuli

In the 2009 Finnish film Mitä meistä tuli (What became of us), two main characters have a special dinner (snails) on their porch in Helsinki.* The shots are only of the two over each other's shoulders but it is clear they are seated in a small private area which opens up into a public, forested area. There is ambient noise of children's (?) play and other conversations in the background, i.e., they are home but they are also in a public space. This image demonstrates the nature of the partitioned porches (there is no doubt another word for these but I can't think of one):

The above image is a better view of the nature of the space - a lawn and dense foliage.

You could be forgiven for dismissing this as merely my fetishisation of Finnish society but also I would like to draw your attention to the way in which this casually (possibly unconsciously as it's so ordinary) explores the way in which a household can go about its private business in public - as one would, I suppose, in a restaurant or going on a walk. 

* I don't think Helsinki is stated but if it's not Helsinki it's 'Anycity, Finland' 

'Build City for Motor Age' 1928

Knoxville News-Sentinel 25 March 1928 p. 36
 

Hundred Houses Homes, Cambridge UK

A plan by C. W. Craske for an estate established by the Hundred Houses Society in Cambridge includes a large playground behind buildings, in this instance from conservationist necessity rather than ideology. ‘The site of a medieval moated farm has been preserved as a children’s playground, and forms a central feature of the scheme, while the rather awkward shape of the site and problems of levels for sewerage have been countered by the use of four culs-de-sac springing fanwise from the children’s playground.’ Craske’s plan appears to have been rejected. 

To be honest since I can't locate where it was meant to be, I am not even sure this is an internal reserve - what was adjoining the section at the bottom of this plan? 

‘Hundred Houses Society, Ltd.’ Town and Country Planning Vol IV no 13 1935 p.18 (illustration p. 19)