Ángela María Alessio Robles y Cuevas (30 March 1917 - 27 April 2004) was a Mexican civil engineer and town planner.
[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.
[4] In 1946, Alessio Robles studied for a Master of Science degree in Planning and Housing at Columbia University, New York.
[4] She was later Secretary of Urban Development of the State of Nuevo León and oversaw the construction of the Macroplaza in the heart of the city of Monterrey, Mexico in the 1980s.