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Contributor(s): Kathleen Scanlon

Released on 23 July 2016

New research published by LSE and the Berkeley Group explores how urban villages could help address the capital's housing crisis.

The report, called 'New London Villages', identifies six characteristics of a real urban village. These include being a place that is unique, mixed, locally driven and designed for social interaction. The authors then tested Kidbrooke Village in the Royal Borough of Greenwich against them and made a series of recommendations for all new major developments in London.