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Vicente del Rio is an architect with a graduate diploma in Urban and Regional
Planning (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), a Master’s in Urban Design (Oxford
Polytechnic), and a Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism (University of São Paulo, Brazil).
Since September 2001, he teaches in the City and Regional Planning Department, California
Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, where he is a full professor. 

From 1979 to 2001 he taught at the school of of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, where he was a full professor and served as vice-director
and graduate coordinator. He was visiting professor and has lectured in several occasions
in universities in the US, England, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. He was a
Senior International Fellow at Johns Hopkins University (1984) and a Visiting Scholar at
the Center for Urban Design, University of Cincinnati (1992/3). From 2005-2008 he has
been a visiting professor at the masters program in urbanism, Universidade Lusofona in
Lisbon, Portugal. 

Vicente has a long professional experience in physical planning and urban design. From
1979 to 1985 he worked at Rio de Janeiro’s State Foundation for Metropolitan Planning,
and in 1986 he worked at the Secretaria de Urbanismo, city of Rio de Janeiro. From August
to December 1984, as a visiting urban designer at the City of Baltimore he was
responsible for the urban design revitalization project for Fells Point Waterfront. He
left his public job in 1986 to dedicate full time to teaching and private consultancy. He
was an associate and/or consultant to various urban design projects in firms in Brazil
--such as Coutinho-Diegues-Cordeiro, and Mayerhofer & Toledo, both in Rio de Janeiro.
Some of these projects were developed in conjunction with The SWA Group in the U.S. Some
projects he has participated in are: Lagoa dos Ingleses New Community ( 3,500 hectares,
Nova Lima), Jacuhi and Sarue new communities (400 and 350 hectares, Serra, Brazil),
Cidade Alta new community (400 hectares, Juiz de Fora), a development plan and conceptual
design for an eco-tourism costal resort (1,000 hectares, Paraty), the Environmental
Management Master Plan for the Watershed Area of the Sepetiba Bay (Rio de Janeiro State),
and the Rio Cidade urban design plans for Méier, Avenida Suburbana, and Largo do Bicao
(Rio de Janeiro). Since he moved to the US in 2001 he has developed the Grover Beach
Façade Enhancement Plan and the Traver Participatory Concept Plan through Cal Poly’s
Foundation. He is an allied professional to R2L, San Luis Obispo. 

Vicente has received various awards for this work and publications in Brazil and in the
U.S. He has published more than fifty titles in Brazil and abroad. He authored five books
in Portuguese, including the best seller and award winner Introduction to Urban Design in
the Planning Process. His first book in the English language, Contemporary Urbanism in
Brazil: Beyond Brasilia, is scheduled to be published by the University Press of Florida
in Fall 2008. 

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