Landscape transformation

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.

Writer Alissa Walker explores her neighborhood on foot to imagine where new parks could thrive.

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.

A conversation with community organizer Elva Yañez.

Explore the evolving, reciprocal partnership between human activity and the living environment.

Learn practical ways to build community resilience—from habitat gardens and cooling splash pads to rainwater collection systems.

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.

Learn the benefits and tradeoffs of different landscaping approaches through one yard’s transformation.

See how living infrastructure helped a community heal in the aftermath of environmental injustice.