Guanajuato, Gto., April 25, 2017.- Because an agreement that the University of Guanajuato (UG) has with the Université Bordeaux, Magali Risler arrived at this city, who, as the topic of her master degree research in Architecture, worked on the influence of the urban growth in the south zone of Guanajuato.

Dr. Brigitte Lamy, Coordinator of the Interinstitutional Program of the Doctorate in Architecture at the Division of Architecture, Art and Design (DAAD) of Campus Guanajuato of UG, explained that just as the Université Bordeaux proposes stays of its students, UG can encourage youth of Guanajuato to work in France, because they return with a wider vision on how to solve the problems in their country.

She informed that Magali Risler came for a stay in Guanajuato which began on March 16 and finished this month, which is within the agreement signed between both universities years ago and that implies, among other activities, workshops with architecture students.

Risler is at the master degree program and in fact, it is the first generation to receive a postgraduate in Architecture. She commented that her studies are open for architects, landscapers and urbanists, with city topics.

Her topic is the influence of the urban growth on the field and how the population has adopted in this territory transformation. She was working in the communities of Yerbabuena, Puentecillas, Cuevas and Santa Catarina de Cuevas.

The young French woman observed that these communities facing a fast change, there are small resistances in architecture and a lot of influence in urbanization, but there is also a great difference in desk planning and the growth planning and reality, "reality doesn't reflect on maps."

She also noted that the development vision in the field is services, but not rural economy, which is not a part of the growth plans, where the reality is very complicated and different to what was planned in offices and documents.

After her stay in Guanajuato, she revealed, that she will make a project in Kinshasa, Congo (Africa) on urban agriculture, and her observations in this capital will help her understand the hybrid field-city and the mechanisms, organization systems and planning, which are complex.

She thanked the accompaniment and hospitality given by the University of Guanajuato, where she found warmth, friendship and good academic services.

Finally, Dr. Lamy informed that in addition of the south zone of Guanajuato, they visited the community of Duarte in Leon, where they talked with people of the Municipal Planning Institutes of both cities.

There is uncertainty because the field is abandoning the agricultural activity, observed the scholar, who revealed that this topic is so important that they are also working with students in the architecture major.

Today, Dr. Lamy who is an anthropologist and sociologist, teaches semiotics at the Architecture and Regional Urban Planning major on urban theories and research in the master degree, besides being coordinator of DAAD'S Interinstitutional Doctorate Program.