Heather B. Barrow

Heather B. Barrow received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She taught history, urban studies, and public policy at University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Indiana University Northwest, and Loyola University Chicago. Barrow was also a director at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she managed the collection of architect Bertrand Goldberg, who pioneered central-city development. She is a former docent with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, where she gave tours of the Windy City. She has traveled internationally to research the Bauhaus.

Her interests are twentieth-century American history, mid-century modernism, post-industrialization, company towns, suburbs, machine politics, Midwestern cities, transit-oriented development, New Urbanism, infrastructure planning, public policy, and all things Chicago.

Her current book, at www.midcenturybooks.net, is "essential reading for understanding the transformation of Detroit."

Previous publications: Manufacturing Suburbs and Bertrand Goldberg Collection Finding Aid