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Baldwin Hills Village, 1942-1950 (Modern Architecture in Los Angeles)
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Date Recorded: October 7, 2013
Duration: 00:02:38
The residential community of Baldwin Hills Village, at the southwest edge of Los Angeles, was designed by Reginald Johnson and the firm of Lewis Wilson, Edwin Merrill, and Robert Alexander, with Clarence Stein as consulting architect. A celebrated example of urban housing, the development is organized around a "village green" with parking and traffic kept on the margins.
