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 and later a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University 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 is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley.

Awards and honors

* 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Latin America and the Caribbean.
* Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IURD), University of California at Berkeley 2007-2008.
* 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 Researcher by the National Research System of Mexico (SNI) since 2000.
* 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.

elected Publications

*Valenzuela, Alfonso. (forthcoming). «Nature and the city: Greening Mexico City, 1900-2000» in Brantz Dorothee and Sonja Dümpelmann (Ed) "The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America", Studies in International Environmental History, Rowman & Littlefield.
* Valenzuela, Alfonso. (forthcoming). «Mexico City: Power, Equity and Sustainable Development» in Okata, J., Valenzuela, A., Sorensen A. et al. (Editors) "Megacities. Toward Sustainable Urban Form in the 21st Century", London & Tokyo: Elsevier.
* Valenzuela Alfonso (forthcoming). «The social control of space», «Fear of Crime» and «Urban Insecurity», in Michael Palmiotto (Editor) "Encyclopedia of International Security", IQ Press, New York.
* Valenzuela Alfonso. 2008. «Ivan Illich and the leisure pursuit of free people» in "Radical History Review", Issue 102 (Fall): History and Critical Pedagogies: Transforming Consciousness, Classrooms, and Communities, New York.
* Valenzuela, Alfonso.2008. «Urbanization» and «Cities», in Juang R.M and N. Morrissette (Editors) "Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics and Culture. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia", Vol. 1, Trasatlantic Relations Series. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
* Valenzuela Alfonso. 2007. «Η εφεύρεση της αστικής κληρονομιάς: πρόσφατες παρεμβάσεις στην Ευρώπη και την Λατινική Αμερική» in "AΩ Magazine" No.37, September. Also published as «The Invention of Urban Heritage Recent interventions in Europe and Latin America» in the "AΩ International Online Magazine" Issue 07, 2008.
* Valenzuela, Alfonso.2006. «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, Autumn.
* Valenzuela, Alfonso. 2005. «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", Berlin.
* Valenzuela, Alfonso, 2004. «La ley de la calle: inseguridad urbana y control social del espacio en la Ciudad de Mexico» (The street’s Law: urban insecurity and the social control of space in Mexico City) in "Journal of Latin American Urban Studies", volume 6, Fall, New York.

External links

* 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