Jorge Legorreta
architect (1948-2012)
Jorge Legorreta Gutiérrez (September 4, 1948, Mexico City – July 17, 2012, Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and urbanist. He was one of the main researchers on the relationship of Mexico City with its former lake environment and the urbanism developed from it, as well as the problems in the management of water resources in the city. Legorreta was also the head of the Cuauhtémoc borough from 1997 to 2000.
Early life and education
Jorge Legorreta Gutiérrez was born on 4 September 1948 in Mexico City. He trained as an architect at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and also graduated from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). He subsequently earned a master's degree in sociology and a doctorate in urbanism, both from UNAM, and completed a specialization in urban planning in the German Democratic Republic.
Academic career
Legorreta spent over three decades as a professor and researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), where he founded the Center for Studies on Mexico City. He also taught at UNAM and the IPN. At the time of his death, he was serving as coordinator of UAM's Mexico City Water Information Centre, an institution he had established.
He was widely regarded as one of the country's foremost specialists in urban expansion and its consequences for the population, the environment, and public policy. His academic colleague Manuel Perló, director of Social Research at UNAM, described Legorreta's body of work as technically rigorous and academically influential, pointing in particular to his early studies on urbanism in oil-producing cities and his landmark research on pollution in Mexico City.
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