Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is an Architect and Urban Planner.

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera (IURD) is a Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico. Trained as an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana, he holds degrees in Urban Planning by the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and a PhD in Urbanism by UNAM, Mexico. Dr. Valenzuela was a postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism in Paris, a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the last three years a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley. He also has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University, the Technical University of Athens, and was appointed the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America (IHEAL) at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. A consultant on urban revitalization strategies to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, his work has been funded by several international institutions and organizations and has published widely in specialized planning journals. He was named a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and selected by the World Bank Institute as one of the Top 30 Social Innovators in 2010.

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