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What is the Living Infrastructure Field Kit?
The Living Infrastructure Field Kit is a free platform for the Greater L.A. Region. It provides map-based planning tools, learning materials, and local data to support collaborative community design.
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Learn, Collaborate, Design, Champion
Learn About Places
Understand high-level trends and learn how places have been shaped by past decisions and disinvestment. Review and compare data about unique cultures, ecosystems, and histories to determine places that most need attention and investment.
Engage Community
Incorporate community perspectives and local wisdom. Collaborate on projects with your team or community. Design remedies that respond to community needs.
Tell Powerful Stories
Visualize neighborhood conditions that could benefit from living infrastructure, like cooling, accessible gathering spaces, or thriving habitats. Support your vision with data and cost estimates. Create presentations and grant applications that help neighbors, collaborators, and funders understand your project.
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Learn and Apply Living Infrastructure
Explore Remedies
Access a library of over 40 living infrastructure remedies that respond to needs such as cooling, food access, and flood safety. Learn how different remedies can work to address interconnected problems and support multiple species.
Long-term Care and Resilience
Create projects that can adapt to our changing world. Promote healthy relationships among people and places. Estimate the costs of ongoing care.
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What kinds of projects does the Field Kit support?
The Field Kit is for people who want their places to thrive. It guides individuals and project teams at all experience levels, including communities, agencies, and schools, in designing projects and securing funds to benefit their places. Here are some of the projects the Field Kit supports.
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Learn more about Living Infrastructure
Dive deeper with case studies, interactive animations, interviews, articles, and videos.
Is LA's Transportation Landscape Finally Improving?
Experts Natalie Chyba and Chelsea Richer talk about the bus shelters and bike lanes coming to Pico Boulevard and beyond.
How Compost Nourishes Community in LA
L.A. Compost is revolutionizing the way cities handle food scraps.
Helping Local Water Districts Capture Stormwater and Replenish Groundwater on Public Land
How Crescenta Valley Water District used the Living Infrastructure Field Kit to find public parcels for stormwater capture and groundwater recharge.
An Illustrated Guide to El Niño Prep
In this comic, two flowers share how collective care is the best form of protection we have during El Niño.
What Water Remembers
In this photo essay, Nīa MacKnight follows the Los Angeles River to ask what it means for water and memory to find its way home.
More Than a Wildlife Crossing
L.A.’s first wildlife crossing is finally opening after nearly five years of construction, benefiting more than just the animals who will walk upon it.
Capturing the Wisdom of Coastal Communities
Read all about how Heal the Bay conducted two workshops with coastal community-based organizations
Every Park Needs a Steward
The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust is investing in a model that puts community members in charge of their local parks.
