Professor Crane (PhD, MIT) studies urban environmental and development problems. Some are applied, such as the value and provision of urban services in developing countries, environmental governance reform, and transportation policy. Others involve more basic research on planning mechanisms and behavioral responses to public policies, such as urban design/transportation linkages, the determinants of metropolitan structure, and the measure, meaning, and governance of sprawl.
Recent projects analyze a number of development planning questions with nuanced behavioral elements, including gender and travel, housing affordability and crowding, water governance, housing/labor markets dynamics, and the state of academic research on smart growth. He also just completed service on a National Research Council committee that produced the report: Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity, National Academies Press, 2005. Internationally, Crane has conducted research and consulted in China, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Thailand, and Yemen, and was a Fulbright professor at the Colegio de M¨¦xico in Mexico City. His book, Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel, Oxford, 2001 (with Marlon Boarnet) is positioned as the reference monograph on the topic. Two books in progress include The Market for Shelter: U.S. Housing Conditions & Behaviors, 1985-2005, and The Death and Life of Smart Growth (with Daniel Chatman). The next will focus on Chinese urbanization.
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