A residential area of the city containing a cluster of individuals of similar culture and/or interests. Ghazali (2003) Area 35, 2 notes that many rural villages in Malaysia have been absorbed by urban expansion and become urban villages. Hao et al. (2013) Int. J. Urban & Reg. Res. 37, 6, 2177 report on the urban village development process in Shenzhen, China, while Franklin and Tait (2002) Planning Theory 1, 3, 250 report that the concept of the urban village in the UK was first promoted by the Urban Villages Group in the late 1980s as a means to achieve more human-scale, mixed-use, and well-designed places: ‘The term urban village has since entered the planning discourse’.