William Alonso
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William Alonso | |
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Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | January 29, 1933
Died | February 11, 1999 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 66)
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Field | Urban economics |
Alma mater | Harvard University
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William Alonso (January 29, 1933 – February 11, 1999)[1] was an Argentine-American planner and economist.
He was born in Buenos Aires but moved to the United States in 1946 during the Perón regime with his father Amado Alonso, a leading Spanish philologist, who was then appointed at Harvard. He earned a bachelor's degree in architectural science from Harvard in 1954 and a master's degree in city planning from Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956. In 1960 he received a doctorate in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1960 to 1961 Alonso worked as director and professor in the Department of Regional and Urban Planning at the
In 1976 Alonso became Director of the Center for Population Studies of Harvard University. Two years later he became the Richard Saltonstall professor of population policy in the Faculty of Public Health and a member of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
His research was focused on
In 1964, he published Location and Land Use, in which he defined a modeled approach to the formation of land rent in urban environments. His model became one of the pillars of urban economics.[2]
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References
- ISBN 0415252253.
- ISBN 978-0674729568