Los Angeles contains Baldwin Hills Village, the 1939 master-planned community later renamed Village Green.
The development was designed during the late 1930s as a large-scale alternative to conventional apartment construction. Its low-rise buildings were arranged around landscaped open spaces, pedestrian paths, and shared facilities rather than packed tightly along streets. The plan separated cars from much of the interior communal landscape.
The project became influential in discussions of American housing design because it combined rental residences with a garden-like setting and coordinated planning. Its designers included Reginald D. Johnson, Clarence Stein, and Lewis Wilson, whose work reflected modern housing and garden-suburb principles.
Baldwin Hills Village was later renamed Village Green. It is sometimes confused with a detached suburban subdivision, but it was conceived as a unified planned residential community with common spaces and architectural controls.