Life Without Cars

Then again, the place is depicted as a happy skippy community of dogooders, so i'm imagineing a kind of utipoia with no crime where these flimsy metal sheds are secure enough, perhaps you are being a bit more realistic.

I grew up in this part of Germany (100km away) and you really don't need anything else. My parents leave their cars and front doors unlocked and park their bikes unlocked out in the front of the house.

It is a socially conservative area, which has surprisingly large support for Germany's Green party though. The city next to Vauban, Freiburg, is the centre of Germany's solar panel industry and has the only, AFAIK, Green major of any city in Germany.