Associate Professor

Francisco Alaniz Uribe joined SAPL as an assistant professor in 2014 and was awarded the University of Calgary’s inaugural Teaching Award for Sessional Instructors before becoming a full-time tenured faculty member as an associate professor in 2023. Prior to this, Alaniz Uribe worked as a research associate at The Urban Lab for 10 years. He has been its co-director for the past several years, and through it has worked with community associations, town and city councils, neighbourhood committees and other civic groups to collaboratively address issues of public realm quality and how the built form impacts people. His research work at The Urban Lab is primarily focused on sustainable urbanism, compact cities, and the quality of public life. His work often incorporates community-based participatory research methodologies and explores the applicability of new technologies like virtual reality and drones.

In harnessing the unique capabilities of both new technologies and community expertise, Francisco Alaniz Uribe’s research pushes the boundaries of what can be discovered and achieved in urban planning. His resourcefulness, creativity, and passion for building a more sustainable built form and a high-quality, equitable public realm, is helping to build a bright future of cities that everyone can enjoy.

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