Joseph Heathcott
Joseph Heathcott joined the faculty at The New School in
2007, and is the Senior Director of the Office of Civic Engagement in
Heathcott co-edited Beyond
the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization, published by Cornell
University Press in 2003. His work has
appeared in a variety of academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. He has been awarded fellowships from the
American Council of Learned Societies, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the
Courses:
The
Historic Preservation in the
City: Time, Space, and Design
Urban Economies: Money, Power,
and People
Senior Capstone Seminar
Growing up in the rustbelt, the city was brown and haunted. I lived in a small house near a liquor store and a porn theater. Buses never came, factories never reopened, sad taverns loomed across from the parish church. Pebbly sidewalks cracked and crumbled. Small, rough front yards choked on tall grass, and mean dogs chained to clotheslines wore rutted dirt paths as they chased you, hoarse from barking. Cold mornings smelled like diesel. Weak Folger's coffee and oatmeal fueled an Irish people. St. Christopher rode sentinel on the dashboard of dad's Ford pickup with Merl Haggard over tinny AM radio. There was a bad house down the street that no kids would go near. Freight trains barreled down the middle of Main Street past the vinegar silos full of rotting fruit. That bully kept watch in front of the Dairy Queen; you had to sneak by to get home safely. Big Red soda rotted young teeth. Remember when the mayor was shot and killed by that crazy lady? All these things were there, all these things happened in the city.
Academic Record
Twentieth Century Architectural
History, Theory, and Criticism
Comparative Urbanism and Civic
Cultures
History of City Planning
Historic Preservation
Visual and Material Culture of
Cities
Politics of Redevelopment and
Urban Design