He has published widely on the design of built environments during the late-1800s and early-1900s, e.g. in Planning Perspectives, Cities, Fabrications, and The European Journal of American Culture. Professor Morley has also participated in television documentaries for The Discovery Channel and Voom!, as well as been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Los Angeles Times, Southeast Asia Globe and La Stampa. He is the Book Review Editor for Urban Morphology: Journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form, an editorial board member of the journal Planning Perspectives, and a former council member of the International Planning History Society. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney and University College Dublin, and was a Visiting Scholar on the urbanism programme held by the Universidade Estudual de Maringá and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil.