One long weekend inside the case studies that made Copenhagen a global reference: the projects, the people behind them, and what your city can learn. Shared with a small, hand-picked group of peers from around the world.
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All Things Urban and Urbcast are joining forces for a new kind of urbanist trip: part study tour, part professional network, part inspiration.
No lecture hall, no generic city tour. You stand inside the projects, hear from the people who shaped them, and leave with ideas you can use in your own work.
Standout projects that speak to architects, planners, designers, mobility, sustainability and real-estate minds alike. Each visit is a working session: how it was planned, financed and delivered, what worked, what did not, and what travels.
One of the city's most valuable plots became a park instead of another building: privately funded, publicly open, parking below the water line. What it takes, politically and financially, to choose green space over floor area.
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From paper warehouses to beloved street-food halls to a new mixed-use quarter. The city's clearest lesson in deliberate meanwhile use: temporary activation built the identity and the land value, then became permanent.
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Copenhagen's first all-timber district, rising at the edge of a wild nature area after years of protests and court battles. The sharpest case on the trip: housing needs, metro-debt financing and love of nature colliding.
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Copenhagen's next big district, seen before it exists. On former railway land, the meanwhile phase is already alive: a community hub, student housing, a food-and-culture oasis. How the city builds a neighbourhood's soul first.
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For six months in 2026, one of the city's most central streets goes car-free: a 900 m² timber deck, trees and life where traffic ran. We visit while the experiment is live, and ask how trials de-risk permanent change.
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Twelve years ago an abandoned shipyard, today Copenhagen's most successful, and most expensive, new district. The land-value-capture model, the metro that unlocked it, and the question: triumph of planning, failure of affordability?
→At every project, someone from the organisation behind it: the people who planned, financed, designed or now run it.
A hand-picked international peer group plus the All Things Urban Copenhagen meet-up. Real contacts, not just photos.
Curated by All Things Urban and Urbcast with a career and community lens. Connections that continue long after Copenhagen.
Curated and hosted by Anastasia Sukhoroslova (All Things Urban) and Marcin Żebrowski (Urbcast): a global view of the urban talent and education market, paired with deep local knowledge of Copenhagen's built environment.
The result is access not only to places, but to the thinking, trade-offs and real-life decisions behind them.
Leads the global community of 100,000+ urban professionals, with 10+ years in urban careers and education. Has led collaborations and client projects with Oxford, LSE, ETH Zurich and EIT Urban Mobility.
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Project manager at Urban Partners, previously urban planner and business developer at Henning Larsen. Hosts Urbcast, reaching 8,000+ listeners across Europe. Trained in urban planning (Warsaw) and sustainable urban design (Lund).
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Guest experts are confirmed and announced ahead of the trip.
This trip is designed for urban professionals who want to learn directly from Copenhagen's built environment, connect with peers and bring sharper ideas back into their own work. It is especially relevant for:
The trip closes with a local ATU chapter meet-up: local urbanists, experts from the city's network and your fellow participants in one room. Your network grows across the Copenhagen ecosystem, not just within the group.
The financing, design moves, governance and trade-offs behind the case studies everyone references.
Direct access to architects, planners and project leads, with real contacts to follow up with.
A hand-picked group of urbanists from around the world, the people you'll keep exchanging ideas with.
For your CV, your employer, or your own record of professional development.
Harbour, new districts and good food. Best understood on foot, and, weather allowing, in the water.
Every visit ends with the same question: what travels to your city, and what doesn't?
This is the shape of the three days. The full timetable, including stops, times and meeting points, will be shared with confirmed participants ahead of the trip.
Arrive in Copenhagen at your own pace. In the evening we gather for a welcome and an informal group dinner, where you meet your hosts and fellow participants and we frame the two study days ahead.
A full day of guided visits: the harbourfront's newest public space, the mixed-use quarter that grew out of meanwhile use, the city's most contested new timber district, and the next big district while it's still in its meanwhile phase. We end with dinner in the Meatpacking District.
We visit a live car-free street experiment in the city centre, then spend the afternoon in Nordhavn unpacking how Copenhagen finances its new districts. In the evening, the trip closes with an All Things Urban Copenhagen meet-up, connecting you with the local ecosystem of urbanists.
Both rates cover the full programme, expert-led visits, transport during the programme, materials and your certificate. Travel, accommodation and meals are yours to arrange.
A curated professional development programme, not a leisure trip. You get a proper invoice for your finance team, a ready-made one-pager for your manager, and an email template you can copy and send.
The group is small, so every place is confirmed personally. Apply with a few words about yourself; approved participants receive a personal payment link.
Have a question first? Reach out at hello@allthingsurban.net or use the form below.
Share a few details, your LinkedIn and a couple of lines on how the trip fits your work and professional journey.
We review applications on a rolling basis. If your application is approved, you hear from us within 2 working days.
With your approval you receive a personal secure payment link. Once payment is complete, your place is confirmed and the details follow by email.
Thanks! We review applications on a rolling basis. If your application is approved, we'll confirm within 2 working days and send you your personal payment link to secure your spot.
Curious whether the trip is right for you, your team or your field of work? Send us your question and we'll get back to you. You can also email hello@allthingsurban.net directly.
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