Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-5080468-20170725091640/@comment-4242472-20170725120621

Practically speaking, I think it would be almost impossible - beyond planets that have only megacities and urban or suburban sprawl - to lack villages. But even highly urbanised planets might have even traditional villages. In my own fiction for instance, even the throne-worlds such as have sprawling country estates, villages would not be far behind; where there's space and where there's room to grow, people will build homes.

It might be a little less clear what is a classic village in the era of colonisation, where the remoteness and freshness of a colony means a planetary capital might be the size of a large town. But for more established colonies, there's an easy chance that not everywhere grows into a suburb or a city.

But you do bring up an interesting point. It is interesting to imagine there's all kinds of living even on core worlds. Not everywhere is going to be Coruscant or Trantor level urbanisation and we see even in modern, highly urbanisaed nations today that the village has yet to become extinct (travel upstate of New York City for instance, or explore the Home Counties of the United Kingdom or the French Riviera).

Not every T4+ planet is going to look like Earth, that's a lot of people to make such urbanisation possible, which means a lot of either immigrants or babies.