Randall Crane
Encyclopedia
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
. He started his academic career planning to become an urban economist.
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
.
UCLA School of Public Affairs
The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is the public affairs/public service graduate school at UCLA. The school consists of three departments -- Public Policy, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning -- offering two undergraduate minors, three master's degrees, and two doctoral degrees...
, 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
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1974 in History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
from the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
. He started his academic career planning to become an urban economist.
In 2008, he was a visiting Scholar at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
Graduate School of Design and a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a think tank based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that focuses on the use, taxation, and regulation of land. It conducts research and policy evaluations, holds conferences, provides education and training, supports demonstration projects, and publishes books and...
.
From 1990 - 1999 he was assistant and associate Professor of Urban Planning, Economics, and Transportation Science at the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
.
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
El Colegio de México
El Colegio de México, A.C. is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities...
, Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
.
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)