科内教授（麻省理工学院博士）的研究领域为城市环境和发展问题，其中多项成果已经应用于实践，比如发展中国家都市服务评价与供应体系，环境监控改革，交通政策等。其它的基础性研究包括：规划机制以及对公共政策的行为反应，例如城市设计与交通的关联，都市结构的决定因素，以及城市蔓延拓展的方法、内涵及控制。
他最近的课题分析了一系列存在细微行为差别的发展规划问题，包括性别与出行方式，住房供应与人口密度，水资源管理，住房与劳动力市场的动态关系，以及精明增长研究现状。他刚结束了在国家研究委员会的工作并提交了名为：《建成环境是否会影响到个体行为》的报告（国家学术出版社，2005）。国际上，科内教授在中国、圭亚那、印尼、肯尼亚、泰国、也门从事研究和咨询工作，并兼任墨西哥大学教授。他与Marlon Boarnet合著的《Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel》（牛津出版社，2001）被视为本领域的权威专著。其它出版物有：《The Market for Shelter: U.S. Housing Conditions & Behaviors, 1985-2005》以及与丹尼尔.查特曼合著的《The Death and Life of Smart Growth》。中国城市化是科内教授接下来的工作重点。
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 México 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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