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Abstract <br />The following reports are from five student groups enrolled in Community Design and Public Interest Architecture: <br />Informants of Creating Landscape Space (ARCH 3250/LA 3002), taught by Professors Joe Favour, James Wheeler, <br />and Jessica Rossi-Mastracci during the spring semester of 2018 at the University of Minnesota. This undergraduate <br />course is intended for upper -division architecture and landscape architecture students, and is designed to build student <br />capacity and skills for creating community -focused green infrastructure and public spaces. Students work in teams of <br />4-6 to explore a real design project with a community partner. <br />Through the RCP —City of Ramsey partnership, students were tasked with designing a community center that honored <br />the rural character of Ramsey while meeting residents' broadly defined need for recreational and other community <br />amenities. Three student teams were assigned to explore a centralized community -center model that would house all <br />amenities in one space in a single location in the City. Two teams investigated a decentralized model, in which <br />community amenities would be dispersed across multiple locations on various publicly owned properties in Ramsey. <br />Students also examined design concepts for downtown trail connections to the Itasca Greenway that would connect <br />Ramsey's downtown district (The COR) with Lake Itasca. <br />The five student reports that follow examine the feasibility of and present concept ideas for either a centralized <br />community -center housed in a single building or a decentralized approach with community amenities dispersed <br />throughout the community. <br />34 <br />