The University of Washington, working with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Gehl Architects, Copenhagen, is in the process of developing a Copenhagen based, interdisciplinary, two-week, travel study program.  The Travel Study program will be held September 7-21, 2008.  The study group will include students from Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and will be led by Professors Nancy Rottle and Kathryn Rogers Merlino.

The twenty-eight students will study the design outcomes of Gehl Architects' and others' work with the goal of creating better public spaces and more sustainable, humane cities. Gehl Architects will help to set up and host the two-week travel study program.  Students will stay primarily in Copenhagen, but there will be excursions to see exemplary projects outside the city.

The student travel to Denmark will be a focused study of the Danish approach to creating successful public space and walkable, bikeable cities. 

The Focus of the Travel Study program will initially be Gehl Architects.  It is expected that the focus will shift and change over time to include other Danish firms and Universities.