Without the housing, the urban villages are nearly worthless, say critics.

Crime rates also fell and a new urban retail village began serving the community.

Some planners question whether a genuine urban village has actually been built.

Overall the landscape resembles like an urban village at the most.

The indigenous population was forced out from the rural areas and into the urban villages.

It is the southernmost of the city's 15 urban villages.

But then it appears as an urban village in the early 16th Century.

We came up with the concept of the urban village.

She lived, like most Japanese of the time, in what was essentially an urban village.

It was thought to be the largest urban village of its kind in the country.