This report provides an overall framework for planning the interface between institutions of postsecondary education and the city in or near which they are located. The main thrust of the report suggests: (1) The question of the interface between a postsecondary school and a city can only be answered by those who are "serious" about it; (2) Being "serious" means taking leadership to push for, or getting the existing leadership to adopt, a program, which respresents a certain conception of what the interface should be and how to achieve that state of affairs; (3) This political process of drawing up a program and realizing it is what planning is really about; (4) In order to plan, institutions must be changed so that planning the interface becomes part of the value-systems, the structures, and the normal routines of those institutions. A bibliography and appendices are included. Related document is HE 004 886. (Author/MJM)