With IS surrounded in the city's southern al-Zuhor neighborhood, the YPG took us to a frontline position in the Red Villas district, an unfinished American-style housing development where two dead NDF soldiers lay unburied in the shell of a suburban house.
VICE News followed a YPG detachment on a night operation, providing support from Hasakah's Red Villas district to advancing Kurdish forces against IS fighters trying to defend the strategic al-Zuhor neighborhood, under waves of constant airstrikes from both the coalition and the Syrian regime's air force.
Walking around the villa district to the northwest of the city center, near the tram's terminus, I saw front doors with circular windows, like portholes.
Approaching An's house — a villa in District 3, a densely settled neighborhood near the train station — we pass an intersection full of motorcycle-repair shops and come to a street that specializes in selling tropical fish, including the Siamese fighting fish that An admires.
Higher rates of regeneration have been detected in densely built-up areas (inner city zones and housing estates), while lower rates are registered for areas with low population density and with a greater supply of green spaces (garden colonies, open spaces, industrial zones and villa residential districts).
This was how they treated the murder of 16 youngsters, many of them little more than children, at a party in the Villas de Salvárcar district on 30 January this year.
The gates of ancient pagodas are dwarfed by the modern, narrow "tunnel houses," and the crumbling villas of the French district have been converted into embassies or multifamily residences.
According to the agency in charge of developing the economic cities, this cluster of buildings will blossom into a walled city with 400,000 apartments, town houses and villas; a central business district; an industrial zone; a 250-acre university campus; and one of the world's largest and most technologically advanced ports.
Peters, who is sixty-one, lines in a gloomy villa in the Peak District, a region of gaunt beauty in northern England.
Hirschfeld was now at the helm of the Institute for Sexual Science: a museum, clinic, and research center, housed in a handsome villa in the Tiergarten district.
Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 1.09pm BST 11.54am BST People make their way along a mud street in Villa Maria del Triunfo district in Lima, Peru.
