

Take it from the Top: Preparing Urbanists for the 21st Century
Colloquy for the Urban Affairs Association Conference April 12-14, 2022 in Washington, DC How do we introduce students to the study of...


Living in the Diagram
Click the image below for PDF The Colonia Federal neighborhood in Mexico City presents a striking octagonal urban form. Spread out over...

Landscape Entanglements
Iran-Iraq Border. Latitude 30º58’16”N, Longitude 48º02’41”E, Altitude 37,457 feet. Joseph Heathcott and Kevin Rogan. "Landscape...


Lectures 2019 - 2020
I have given or will be giving talks on several topics this year and next, including those listed below. For descriptions, click the...


Amazon, Sunnyside Yards, and Our Urban Future
We have to imagine a future where urban regeneration is no longer the prerogative of developers, but assumed as an opportunity for the...


Mexico City Morphologies
"Mexico City Morphologies." Streetnotes 26 (2019), special issue 'From Above: The Practice of Verticality' (Click on the image for the...


Geometry of Corn + Blood
Click the image above for the PDF. Heathcott, Joseph. "Geometry of Corn and Blood." Dispatches from the Institute of Incoherent...


Spatial Affordance Project
Students in City Studio have been doing amazing work as "data flâneurs," using Google Street View to record spatial affordances in the...


Urban History Lab 2018
Students in the Urban History Lab, Fall 2018, entered the national competition to re-imagine Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. A...


Street Markets, Mexico City
With their striking colors and circuitous forms, the street markets of Mexico City comprise a vital part of the everyday life and public cul