CRANE, RANDALL

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Urban Planning
Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies
UCLA School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles

Randall Crane studies the development challenges of cities, such as  rushed urbanization, urban design/behavior linkages, urban  environmental problems, public finances, housing and transportation  markets, and the measure, meaning and governance of sprawl.

His international experience includes work in China, Colombia, Guyana,  Indonesia, Kenya, Thailand, and Yemen, and a Fulbright research  fellowship at the Colegio de México in Mexico City.  He is the  coauthor of "Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel" (Oxford), coeditor of the forthcoming "Oxford Handbook of  Urban Planning," and is planning a book on Chinese urbanization.  His  PhD is from MIT.

web site: http://faculty.spa.ucla.edu/crane