In Spring of 2011, the Hamer Center sponsored a 3rd year Landscape Architecture Community Design Studio, where students work in teams develop site analysis, neighborhood plans, and public design projects for a series of districts located within and around the city of Lewistown, PA. These sites included a proposed hill side site, a greenfield site, a riparian waterfront and neighborhood, and a low income neighborhood adjacent to an industrial site. Each team’s site analysis and subsequent neighborhood plan explored open space systems (such as parks, recreation spaces and natural areas), circulation systems (pedestrian, bicycle, vehicular, public transit), land use and zoning, lot sizes and building footprints, ecological systems (such as vegetation, trees and wildlife), as well as hydrological systems. The goals of these projects were not only to provide design services to the city of Lewistown, but also to help student develop technical and professional skills in community design and planning