L.A. is alive with possibility.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lessons From Underground
The soil networks that bring our worlds to life also offer key lessons in how we build more resilient cities and heal old wounds
What is Living Infrastructure?
Living infrastructure is all around you. We define it as an approach to designing and caring for our neighborhoods so that all life can thrive.
What if the strongest infrastructure isn't concrete?
As Altadena rebuilds after the Eaton Fire, mutual aid leads the way toward a just and equitable recovery, creating systems of care that distribute resources where they're needed the most.
How water — and a decades-long community effort — is saving Elephant Hill
A conversation with community organizer Elva Yañez
Living infrastructure invitation
Explore the evolving, reciprocal partnership between human activity and the living environment.
Remedy Explorer
Learn practical ways to build community resilience—from habitat gardens and cooling splash pads to rainwater collection systems.
Think differently about water
Watch the unexplored potential of what’s possible when adopting a living systems approach to healing the water and land right here in L.A.
Landscape transformation
Learn the benefits and tradeoffs of different landscaping approaches through one yard’s transformation.
See living infrastructure in action
See how living infrastructure helped a community heal in the aftermath of environmental injustice.