Dr. Morton teaches graduate seminars in topics related to urban design, historic preservation, creative placemaking, commemoration, and Washington, DC, along with client-based studios.
Current Course Offerings
- Fall 2020
- Creative Placemaking and Cultural Planning
- Historic Preservation Planning
Previous Course Offerings
- Past Urban Design Seminars
- Housing Camp (Summer 2020)
- Historic Preservation & Affordable Housing
- Intro to Design Review and Principles
- Privately-owned Public Spaces Field Project
- City Design Principles and Policies
- Inclusive Public Spaces: Applying the Gehl Institute’s Public Life Tools to Spaces in Alexandria
- Art, Culture and Society
- Monumental Washington: Planning and Commemoration in the Nation’s Capital
- Design Review for Planners and Designers
- 11th Street Bridge Park Design Competition Survey Module
- International Historic Preservation
- Housing Camp (Summer 2020)
- Planning Studios
- Autonomous Mobility: Potential Impacts, Strategies and Visions for Arlington County (Fall 2018 & Spring 2019)
- Documenting Arlington’s Legacy Businesses (Spring 2017)
- Creating Twenty-first Century Play Spaces for DC Parks (Spring 2016)
- Hidden Arlington: Planning and Preservation Strategies for Diverse Local Heritage (Fall 2014)
- The 11th Street Bridge Park: Stitching Together Communities (Spring 2013)
- Exploring Evaluation for Public Art: Arlington County as Laboratory (Spring 2012)
- Tinner Hill African American Heritage Tour (Spring 2011) (Winner of the 2012 Student Project Award from APA Virginia)
- Tinner Hill/Falls Church Arts & Cultural District (Spring 2009)
- Going Green in Old Town Alexandria (Fall 2008)
- Congressional Club National Register Nomination and Adaptive Use Strategies (Fall 2007)
