Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera

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Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera
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Born1964 (age 57–58)
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materUniversity of Paris; UNAM; ; Universidad Iberoamericana
Known forResearch on the Social Construction of Fear, Global Urban Devices and Spatial Cognition
AwardsFulbright, Onassis and Guggenheim Fellow, SNI Level III
Scientific career
FieldsUrban planning, architecture, sociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Lisbon; University of California Berkeley; University of Texas at Austin; ; University of Toronto; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
InfluencesHenri Lefebvre, Milton Santos,
Websitewww.obs-seguridad.org

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is a Mexican architect, critical theorist and urban planner.

Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico, he was trained as an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana, holding 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 for three years a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), University of California at Berkeley and the University of Buenos Aires. 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 Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellow and selected by the World Bank Institute as one of the Top 30 Social Innovators in 2010. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University, the Technical University of Athens, and the . 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 , the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Calgary, Rice University and the John Bousfield Distinguished Visiting Professor in Planning, University of Toronto.

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