But is living without a backyard actually a bad thing?Prefer to listen to this story? Click here."Will we be bringing our backyard?" my three-year-old son asks when he first walks into an empty two-bedroom apartment in Melbourne These range from the unthinkable: children falling to their deaths from unsafe windows and balconies; to the insidious: how limited access to appropriate common space, poor kitchen design and size can hamper a family's ability to live well in an apartment, says Andrews, an associate professor at Deakin University who explores how the built environment impacts heath.One afternoon we inspect a small new apartment for sale by a developer widely promoted by industry and media as leading Australia's good apartment design