Dr. Morton teaches in the Sustainable Urban Planning graduate program at George Washington University. For 15 years Dr. Morton taught interdisciplinary graduate seminars and client studios at Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia campus.

Her courses focus on topics related to urban design, cultural heritage, historic preservation, creative placemaking/placekeeping, and the Washington, DC region.

Previous Course Offerings

• Past Urban Design Seminars
  • Housing Camp
    • Historic Preservation & Affordable HousingIntro 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
  • Creative Placemaking and Cultural Planning
  • Historic Preservation Planning
  • 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
  • New Tools for Preserving Cultural & Neighborhood Identity in Commercial Corridors
  • Autonomous Mobility: Potential Impacts, Strategies and Visions for Arlington County
  • Documenting Arlington’s Legacy Businesses
  • Creating Twenty-first Century Play Spaces for DC Parks
  • Hidden Arlington: Planning and Preservation Strategies for Diverse Local Heritage
  • The 11th Street Bridge Park: Stitching Together Communities
  • Exploring Evaluation for Public Art: Arlington County as Laboratory
  • Tinner Hill African American Heritage Tour(Winner of the Student Project Award from APA Virginia)
  • Tinner Hill/Falls Church Arts & Cultural District
  • Going Green in Old Town Alexandria
  • Congressional Club National Register Nomination and Adaptive Use Strategies