Community-university partnerships are an established concept but are not typically central to the core planning curriculum. This study highlights a model of teaching innovation, Integrated Community Planning Core, where the core directly supports the departmental mission by bridging research and practice. The article explains the curriculum development process and assesses its ability to serve community, student, and faculty needs. Data collected from focus groups, student reflection papers, and practicing planner debriefings demonstrate the model is modestly successful, but adaptations are needed to communicate the value to students, the planning academy, and the university.

A new variant of the concordance analysis is developed and discussed in this paper. The concordance procedure in general is a multicriteria evaluation method for alternative projects. It is based on a pairwise comparison of (weighted) project outcomes, and it can be used both as an elimination method for less desirable projects and as a selection method of good projects. The new variant introduced in this paper is based on the idea of satisficing (or norm) project outcomes, which may serve as a frame of reference for the evaluation techniques. Such satisficing outcomes are also important in attacking the dimensional problems of a multicriteria analysis. The new concordance variant is illustrated by means of an empirical application to the selection of the most desirable plan out of a series of alternatives for the development of the Markerwaard area in the Netherlands. It is concluded that the concordance analysis is a useful tool in taking account of intangibles in water resource and land use design.

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