L.A. is alive with possibility.

L.A. is alive with possibility.

L.A. is alive with possibility.

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Living Infrastructure is an approach to designing and caring for our neighborhoods so that all life can thrive.

What is the Living Infrastructure Field Kit?

What’s inside 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.

A sample Field Kit sketch shows opportunities for cooling, food, and recreation within a selected project site.
Honor Place
Grow Participation
Embody Justice

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.

Map pin with pencil

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.

A sample Field Kit sketch shows opportunities for cooling, food, and recreation within a selected project site.
Honor Place
Grow Participation
Embody Justice

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.

Map pin with pencil

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.

A sample Field Kit sketch shows opportunities for cooling, food, and recreation within a selected project site.
Honor Place
Grow Participation
Embody Justice

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.

Map pin with pencil

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.

Foster Resilience
Regenerate Life

Learn and Apply Living Infrastructure

Flower illustrated icon

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.

Illustrated icon of paper and pencil

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.

 A project sketch set to prioritize cooling, food, and recreation reveals corresponding remedies suggested by the Field Kit, including a fruit tree, bike share station, and vegetable garden.
Foster Resilience
Regenerate Life

Learn and Apply Living Infrastructure

Flower illustrated icon

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.

Illustrated icon of paper and pencil

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.

 A project sketch set to prioritize cooling, food, and recreation reveals corresponding remedies suggested by the Field Kit, including a fruit tree, bike share station, and vegetable garden.
Foster Resilience
Regenerate Life

Learn and Apply Living Infrastructure

Flower illustrated icon

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.

Illustrated icon of paper and pencil

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.

 A project sketch set to prioritize cooling, food, and recreation reveals corresponding remedies suggested by the Field Kit, including a fruit tree, bike share station, and vegetable garden.
PROJECT TYPES

What kinds of projects does the Field Kit support?

What kinds of
projects does the
Field Kit support?

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.

An asphalt schoolyard overlaid with colorful illustrations of trees, rainwater tanks, a native plant garden, and children playing in a shaded playground.
An asphalt schoolyard overlaid with colorful illustrations of trees, rainwater tanks, a native plant garden, and children playing in a shaded playground.

Ready to get started?

Ready to start
co-designing?

The Living Infrastructure Field Kit is free and available to use. Click the button below to get started.

A map of Los Angeles County scattered with illustrations of living infrastructure projects. A colorful, animated flock of birds soars out from behind the search bar.
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A map of Los Angeles County scattered with illustrations of living infrastructure projects. A colorful, animated flock of birds soars out from behind the search bar.
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