Unknown Urbanity Towards the Village in the City

摘要

The popular portrayal of the Village in the City (ViC) is as a threatened anomaly. On TV and in photojournalism it is most often depicted as a single surviving, washed-up rural community surrounded by a sea of urban high-rises, where ex-farmers use the vestiges of their land-rights to cash in as landlords. Amsterdam-based Japanese architect Yushi Uehara contradicts this view by describing how the Vic represents a significant form of 'dynamic resistance created in an exceptional bottom-up process'.