In a UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative Course titled “ The Architecture of Seven Ecologies II: Engaged Urban Theory and Praxis in Los Angeles,” urban humanities students discussed living conditions around LA River and more. Comprising Series II.B. of the Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, the subseries consists of Nadel's unpublished book, "Aliso Village, USA," and additional material related to the project. Designed in 1942 by the Housing Group Architects, lead by Ralph Flewelling and including Lloyd Wright, the garden city-style Aliso Village was one of the first racially integrated public housing projects in the United States. It was built in the Boyle Heights area known as "The Flats," which in the 1930s was one of the most impoverished areas of Los Angeles. Aliso Village was demolished in 1999 and replaced by a new housing project, Pueblo del Sol. The project culminates into a thickmap.
