Randall Crane, Ph.D., is a Professor and Vice Chair of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, Department of Urban Planning, where he has taught since 1999. He also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and is Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.

He earned his Ph.D. in 1987 in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT. He earned his Master of City and Regional Planning in 1979 from Ohio State University He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1974 in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 2008, he was a visiting Scholar at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

From 1990 - 1999 he was assistant and associate Professor of Urban Planning, Economics, and Transportation Science at the University of California, Irvine.

From 1994 - 1995 he was a visiting research fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego.

From 1989 - 1990 he was a Fulbright Professor at El Colegio de México, Mexico City.

[edit] Publications

• Planning for Access, to appear in The Practice of Local Planning, G. Hack and E. Birch, et al., eds., ICMA Green Book, 2008 (with L. Takahashi).
• Is There a Quiet Revolution in Womenʼs Travel? Revisiting the Gender Gap in Commuting, Journal of the American Planning Association 73, summer, 2007.
• Public Finance Challenges for Chinese Urban Development, in Important Issues in the Era of Rapid Urbanization in China, C. Ding and Y. Song, eds., 2007
• Emerging Planning Challenges in Retail: The Case of Wal-Mart. Journal of the American Planning Association 71, pp. 433-449, Autumn 2005. (with M. Boarnet, D. Chatman and M. Manville)

[edit] External links

• His faculty page at UCLA
• His blog, Urban Planning Research