Ángela Alessio Robles
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30 March 1917
Ángela Alessio Robles | |
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| Born | Ángela María Alessio Robles y Cuevas 30 March 1917 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | 27 April 2004 (aged 87) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Occupations | Civil engineer, town planner |
Ángela María Alessio Robles y Cuevas (30 March 1917 - 27 April 2004) was a Mexican civil engineer and town planner.[1] In the late 1940s and 1950s she was Director General of Planning for the capital of Mexico City, and then the President of Planning and Director of the Plan for Urban Development in the city.[2][3] She later moved to Monterrey and oversaw the development of the Macroplaza there, one of the largest plazas in the world and the largest in Mexico.[4]
Ángela María Alessio Robles y Cuevas (known as Ángela Alessio Robles) was born in Mexico City on 30 March 1917, one of four children of Espinosa Como Cuevas Trinidad and General Vito Alessio Robles.[5] Her mother was of Yaqui heritage and her father was a military officer, engineer and academic of Italian and Tlaxcaltec descent who played a key role in the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920). The couple had met when her father was sent on a military campaign to subdue the Yaqui peoples in the state of Sonora and had married in 1906.[5]
In 1938, Alessio Robles entered the Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros (School of Engineering) in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Five years later she graduated as a civil engineer, having written a thesis Control y regularización de las corrientes del Valle de México: proyecto de los muros de retención para las presas escalonadas (Control and regularisation of the currents of the Valley of Mexico: a project for the retaining walls for the staggered dams).[6][7] She was the fourth woman to graduate from the institution.[4]
In 1946, Alessio Robles studied for a Master of Science degree in Planning and Housing at Columbia University, New York.[4]