--focuses exclusively on the planning discipline and explicitly on progressive, transformational, and regenerative approaches to utilizing university-community partnerships as part of planning curricula --includes unwieldy projects that require a complex understanding of the community and critical thinking in order to devise plans/proposals that address ‘messy’ interrelated issues in real communities --authored contributions and perspectives from academics, professional practitioners, and academic-practitioners --focuses on linking theory with practice in terms of exploring more abstract and academic topics (e.g., pedagogy and higher education issues) alongside more practical topics (e.g., case studies, best practices, barriers, and logistical issues).