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Research Scholar Program University of Southern California School of Architecture |
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Sintia
Salome Manalo, MHPRES |
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Village
Green
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Green, formally known as the Baldwin Hills Village was conceived and designed
as a utopian response to the current social, economical and philosophical
movements prior to the time it was planned. It was designed by five architects,
Reginald Johnson, Lewis Wilson, Edwin Merrill, Robert Alexander and consulting
architect, Clarence Stein. The intent of Reginald Johnson was to create
a new kind of residential community and to provide affordable housing which
was made possible by using government financing through the Federal Housing
Administration. The ideas or theories that took form was a successful cohesion
of site planning, architecture, and landscape architecture in which the
creators of Village Green, took many different issues that needed to be
addressed at the time and successfully managed to create one of the few
models of urban planning that was ahead of it’s time. click here for full paper & bibliography (PDF) |
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