Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera | |
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Born |
1964 (age 49) Mexico City, Mexico |
Fields | Urban Planning, Architecture, Sociology |
Institutions | University Lisbon; University of California Berkeley; Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos |
Alma mater | University of Paris; UNAM; Universidad Iberoamericana |
Known for | Research on the Social Control of Space, Perception of Fear and Spatial Cognition |
Influences | Henri Lefebvre, Ivan Illich |
Notable awards | Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow |
Website www |
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is an Architect, Critical Theorist and Urban Planner.
Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico, was 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. He served as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon and researcher at the Observatory of Human Security, Technical University of Lisbon, 2012-2013, and as a Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia in 2014.
Awards and honors
- Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, 2014.
- National Researcher by the National Research System of Mexico (SNI) Level II (2015-2018).
- Selected by the World Bank Institute as one of the Top 30 Worldwide Social Innovators, Cape Town, 2010.
- Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Latin America and the Caribbean 2008.
- Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IURD), University of California at Berkeley 2007-2010.
- Alexander Onassis Fellow at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2007.
- Alfonso Reyes Chair in Mexican Studies at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America, University of Paris Sorbonne III, 2005.
- Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SPURS/DUSP, 2003/2004, Fulbright and OAS / Leo Rowe Pan-American Fund Fellowships.
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism (IFU), University of Paris VIII, 2002-03. National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Fellowship.
- Ph.D. Magna Cum Laude, held National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT ) Fellowship, 1998-2000.
- Masters fellowship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Government Fellowship, 1991–1994, Italy.
- Alfonso Caso Silver Medal Award for outstanding achievements, UNAM, 2004.
- National Endowment for Arts and Culture Fellowship in Cultural Studies; 2006–2007
- National Endowment for Arts and Culture Fellowship in Urban Design; 1999–2000
- Exchange Fellow by the American Field Service Fellowship; 1982–1983, United Kingdom.
Selected publications
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Urban Surges: Power, Territory and the Social Control of Space in Latin America», in Latin American Perspectives March Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 21-34 (March 2013).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Dispositivos de la globalización: la construcción de grandes proyectos urbanos en Ciudad de México», in EURE, Vol.39, No.116, pp.101-118 (January, 2013).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «La Eficacia Colectiva como Estrategia de Control Social del Espacio Barrial: Evidencias desde Cuernavaca, México», in Revista INVI, Vol. 27, No.74, pp. 187-215 (Mayo, 2012).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Racionalidad y poder: Las elites de la ciudad de México (1876-1940)», in Iberoamericana. América Latina – España – Portugal. Año XII, Nueva Época, No. 45, pp. 9-27. (June 2012).
- Valenzuela Alfonso Ciudades Seguras. Seguridad Ciudadana, Eficacia Colectiva y Control Social del Espacio. (Safe Cities. Citizens’ Security, Collective Efficacy and Social Control of Space), Mexico: Miguel Ángel Porrúa Editores (2011). ISBN 978-607-401-3447-1.
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Dispositivi Globali: La Construzione di Grandi Progetti Urbani a Città del Messico», in Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali (Global Devices. The Construction of Megaprojects in Mexico City), No. 101-102, (September 2011)
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Sustentabilidad, poder y desigualdad» (Sustainability, power and inequity), in Ciudades, Revista de la Red Nacional de Investigación Urbana, Año 21, No.91, (Abril-Junio 2011).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Venecia: Palimpsestos y Ciudades Intangibles» (Venice: Palimpsests and Intangible Cities), in Inventio. No 13, pp. 98-104 (Marzo 2011).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of Law in Mexico City», in Prima Facie - Direito, História e Política. Special Issue on Public Security and Violence. Vol. 10, No 18, Año 10, (Jan-Jun 2011).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Género, Redes Comunitarias y la Construcción de la Seguridad Ciudadana en México» (Gender, Community Networks and the construction of Citizen’s security in Mexico) with Luz Adriana Muñoz Echeverry, in Ciudades. Revista de la Red Nacional de Investigación Urbana, Año 21, No.88, (Oct-Dec 2010).
- Valenzuela Alfonso «Desarrollo sustentable del territorio en las megaciudades» (Sustainable development of the territory in megacities), in Cuadernos Geográficos, núm. 47, 2010, pp. 73-93. (October 2010).
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «Violencia y control social del territorio» (Violence and the social control of territory), in Ciudades. Revista de la Red Nacional de Investigación Urbana, Año 21, No.86, (April-June 2010).
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «Ivan Illich and the leisure pursuit of free people» in Radical History Review, Issue 102: History and Critical Pedagogies: Transforming Consciousness, Classrooms, and Communities, New York. (Fall, 2008).
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «Santa Fé (México): Megaproyectos para una ciudad dividida» (Santa Fe, Mexico: Megaprojects for a divided city) in Cuadernos Geográficos No.40, Special Issue on Urban Forms and Conflict / New Urban Forms, pp. 53-66 (2007).
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «The politics of fear: securing public space in a divided city», in Plan Canada, Special Issue on Security in the City, Vol. 46, No.3, (Autumm, 2006).
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «Mexico City and the places of Globalization», in SUR, Vol. 4 No.3, Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, University of Tokyo, Japan, pp.20-23. (November, 2006)
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «City of fear: The social control of urban space in Latin America», in TRIALOG No. 87: Violence and Insecurity in Cities, Zeitschrift für das Planen und Bauen in der Dritten Welt: Gewalt und Sicherheit in der Stadt (June 2005).
- Valenzuela, Alfonso «El origen del miedo: Enclaves Urbanos y Seguridad Pública en la Ciudad de Mexico» (The origin of fear: gated communities and Public Security in Mexico City), in Revista Imaginales, No.2, pp. 157-172. Universidad de Sonora/COLSON, (Jul-Dec 2005).
External links
- http://lap.sagepub.com/site/misc/index/podcast.xhtml
- http://innovationfair.ning.com/
- http://iurd.berkeley.edu/
- http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/series/latinamerican/index.html
- http://www.onassis.gr/enim_deltio/foreign/07/lecture_06.php
- http://depts.washington.edu/jlaus/pastissues.html
- http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/urbanplanet/identities/ws3/015%20Valenzuela.pdf
- http://csur.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sur/pdf/04/sur04_006.pdf
- http://jsgmf.digitalpulp.com/fellows/16416-Alfonso-Valenzuela-Aguilera
- http://www.cuernavacaforum.org
- http://www.urbanorth.org