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It's clear that the building is bad urbanism whether they took the alley out or not. Good urban buildings do not have privately fenced yards.
I just assumed it was in the suburbs, but if it's on an otherwise urban street then yes, it is bad urbanism - made somewhat better by its good architecture, which is adequately detailed to be interesting for pedestrians.

Architecture and urbanism aren't the same thing. A building can be good one and bad the other.

Of course, to qualify as a good building all the way around, it has to be both.