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

• 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)