Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera Explained

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera
Birth Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Fields:City planning, Urban History, Financialization & Smart Cities
Workplaces:University of Lisbon
University of California Berkeley; University of Texas at Austin; IUAV Venice; University of Toronto; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Alma Mater:University of Paris
UNAM; IUAV Venice; Universidad Iberoamericana
Known For:Research on crime & cities, the Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets and AI transforming Cities.
Awards:Fulbright, Onassis and Guggenheim Fellow, SNI Level III

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera (Ciudad de México, 1964) is a Mexican architect, critical theorist and urban planner. He is a professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico and a visiting professor at universities in North America, Europe and Asia.

Academic Background and Career

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera was trained as an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana, earned a Masters degree in Urban Planning by the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and completed a PhD in Urbanism at UNAM, Mexico, and later served as a postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism in Paris.A consultant on urban revitalization strategies to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), his work has been funded by several international institutions and organizations and has published extensibly on urban issues.

Professor Valenzuela was named a Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellow and selected by the World Bank Institute as one of the Top 30 Social Innovators in 2010. He was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and for three years a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), at the University of California at Berkeley. Later he served as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University, the Technical University of Athens, and the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon.

In 2004 he was appointed the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America (IHEAL) at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and a visiting professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Calgary, Rice University, the University of Buenos Aires. Also, he was appointed the John Bousfield Distinguished Visiting Professor in Planning at the University of Toronto, the Edmundo O'Gorman Visiting Professor at Columbia University in 2022 and a Visiting Scholar at the Centro de Estudios Sociais at the Universidade de Coimbra 2024-2025.

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