Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera
Born	Mexico City, Mexico
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
	Scientific career
Fields	City planning, Urban History, Financialization & Smart Cities
Institutions	University of Lisbon; University of California Berkeley; University of Texas at Austin; IUAV Venice; University of Toronto; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Website	www.obs-seguridad.org

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.

Published works

Books

Interacciones territoriales y prácticas sociales (2024). (Coords.) México: Editorial Navarra & Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. ISBN 978-607-8951-55-0
The Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets. New Frontiers (2022). Nueva York: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-367-63487-2
Crimen y ciudad: Los espacios de la transgresión (2021). México: Juan Pablos Editor & Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. [Honorary Mention, XVII Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura Mexicana, 2022]. ISBN 978-607-8784-16-5
Tepoztlán en su laberinto (w/ Cristina Fernández Saldaña, Coords.) (2020). México: Editorial Navarra & Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. ISBN 978-607-8639-98-4
Seguridad y construcción de ciudadanía. Perspectivas globales, discusiones locales. (Coord.) (2019). México: Bonilla Artigas Editores / Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. ISBN 978-607-8636-32-7
Patrimonio y turismo: La dimensión territorial. (Coords.) (2019). Ediciones Mínimas, México: Juan Pablos Editor / Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos / Universidad de Sonora. ISBN 978-607-711-542-7
Patrimonio y Turismo. Cuando los senderos se bifurcan. (Coords.) (2018). Cuernavaca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. ISBN 978-607-8519-59-0
La reconstrucción del tejido social en Morelos. (Coords.) (2017). México: Ediciones Navarra. ISBN 978-607-9497-28-6
La construcción espacial del miedo (2016). México: Juan Pablos Editor y Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, ISBN 978-607-8434-62-6 [International Award, Bienal Panamericana de Quito 2016].
Urbanistas y Visionarios. La Planeación Urbana de la Ciudad de México en la Primera Mitad del Siglo XX (2014). México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa Editores. ISBN 978-607-401-447-1 [Honorary Mention at the XIII Bienal de Arquitectura Mexicana 2014 and INAH Francisco de la Maza Award 2015].
Imaginarios del paisaje y el turismo. Entre tradición y distintivos oficiales (Coords.) (2014). México: Juan Pablos Editor y Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, ISBN 978-607-8332-72-4
Ciudades Seguras. Seguridad Ciudadana, Eficacia Colectiva y Control Social del Espacio (2011). México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa Editores, ISBN 978-607-401-447-1

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