Randall Crane

Professor

Department: Department of Urban Planning

5375 Public Policy Bldg
School of Public Affairs/Urban Planning
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
Campus mailcode: 165606
crane@ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Public Policy

Ph.D. Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Areas of Expertise:

Urban environmental and development problems.

Research

Some of Professor Crane's studies are applied planning problems, such as the provision of urban services in poor countries, governance reform, and transportation policy. Others involve more basic research on the costs and benefits of public policies, such as the influence of taxes on urban structure or the measure and meaning of sprawl. Recent projects include a study of water governance alternatives in the San Francisco Bay area, municipal governance and urban development strategies in Yemen, housing trends among low-income households in the U.S. (especially California), municipal capacity building and decentralization in Indonesia, the linkages among housing, transportation, and labor markets in growing cities, and the state of academic research on sprawl and smart growth.