The ultimate purpose of planning is the development of land in the public interest.  Simply, plans in the public interest are made useful if they are implemented.  Traditionally, the channel for this is community development, and this remains our focus.  Community development shifts the focus of planners to community organization, to neighborhoods, towns and cities in distress, and to action plans that guide a vision through a process of implementation.   Yet, action plans cry for actions, and thus the emerging role of enterprise planning and its focus on development.   This field infuses the real estate development process with the values of planning, and renders both more sophisticated and effective.  This field demands the partnering of players in all three economic sectors: for profit land developers, financiers and both professional and industry entities; nonprofit community development corporations, affordable housing sponsors and other such public interest organizations; and public agencies, serving as regulator or partner in the enterprise.  This field focuses on inducement and action, on risk-taking and the rewards of an ambitious enterprise, providing public benefits while addressing the bottom line for each participant group.  The development process for the entrepreneurial planner requires high levels of innovation and sound judgment, negotiation in forming strategic alliances, the ability to control events, technical knowledge of site assessment, finance, marketing, and project management, and the quality of perseverance.  Public-private partnerships, development that is community or neighborhood-based, affordable housing, economic development and downtown revitalization, and private development guided by the public interest are all subsets of the Concentration in Community Development and Enterprise Planning. 

The ensuing chart describes the core and elective courses for this ACS, beyond the common core curriculum and as applied to both standard and accelerated tracks: