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Researcher

Tom Broes

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25 Results

2026

Right before the crime : botanical traces in pre-construction-site photographs from Belgian building permits (1960s) for a critical lens on construction nature

Tom BroesLaurence HeindryckxMichiel DehaeneRika Devos

A2 Journal Article in AEDIFICARE

2025

(Temporarily?) out of stock : veranderende condities van beschikbaarheid in het bouwwezen

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

Editorial material

De betoncentrale als terraformingmachine : verstedelijking via betoncentrales of de vermarkting van cement als terraformingspraktijk : de Belgische case, 1955-85

A2 Journal Article in BULLETIN (KNOB)

2024

Construction history, above and beyond : setting up a dialogue with other historical disciplines

Laurence HeindryckxMichiel DehaeneDave De ruysscherRika DevosJohan LagaeIne WoutersTom BroesSimon De Nys-KetelsRobby FivezIgor Bloch et al.

Terraforming Landscapes of Need: Cement, Distribution, and Commercial Urbanism in Post-War Belgium

The rise of do-it-yourself in Belgium (1965-1985) and the mutual entanglement between construction history and planning history : an exploration

Transactional architecture : the interwar activities of architect-developer Jean-Florian Collin in Brussels

Laurence HeindryckxTom BroesMichiel Dehaene

A1 Journal Article in ARQ-ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY

2023

From artistry to agency? Transactional architecture for the creative fashioning of the Antwerp suburbs in the early twentieth century

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

Bookchapter in Creativity from suburban nowheres : rethinking cultural and creative practices

Het verstedelijken van constructiegeschiedenis : de stad als assemblage van bouwpraktijken?

Tom BroesMichiel DehaeneRika DevosStephanie Van de Voorde

A2 Journal Article in STADSGESCHIEDENIS (LEUVEN)

Practices of commodification : the private mass housing development of Etrimo and Amelinckx (1924-1985)

Laurence HeindryckxMichiel DehaeneTom Broes

Stedenbouw als mensenwerk : lurbanisation de l'agglomération Anversoise (1907-1939)

A2 Journal Article in HISTORIANT - GENOOTSCHAP VOOR ANTWERPSE GESCHIEDENIS

Urbanizing Construction History: The Urban as an Assemblage of Construction Agencies

2022

Feniks(syn)droom

Maarten Liefooghe

Bookchapter in In visu, in situ, in mente : beeld-essays voor Pieter Uyttenhove

In Visu, In Situ, In Mente: Beeld-Essays voor Pieter Uyttenhove

2021

Urbanisons! Urbanising the Antwerp agglomeration, 1907-1939

Tom BroesMichiel DehaenePieter Uyttenhove

2020

Transactional real estate for the metropolis

Laurence HeindryckxTom Broes

2018

The architect, the contractor and the developer : the rise and fall of real estate architecture in Belgium 1918-1985

Bookchapter in Real estate architecture : the apartment building

The art of horizontal urbanization : the urban questions of engineer August Mennes in the Antwerp agglomeration

Bookchapter in The horizontal metropolis between urbanism and urbanization

2017

Mastering the urbanization process : the urban questions of engineer August Mennes in the Antwerp agglomeration

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

A1 Journal Article in PLANNING PERSPECTIVES

Real estate pioneers on the metropolitan frontier : the works of Jean-Florian Collin and François Amelinckx in Antwerp

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

A2 Journal Article in CITIES, COMMUNITIES AND TERRITORIES

2016

From splintered municipalism to metropolitan resilience: Interwar provincial experiments in metropolitan governance.

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

2015

Unbounded urbanization and the Horizontal Metropolis : the pragmatic program of August Mennes in the Antwerp agglomeration

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

When the market produced housing for the greatest numbers: the short-lived optimism of private property tycoons in post-war Belgium

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene

2014

Pilootprojecten wonen: architectuur voor de voorstad

Michiel DehaeneTom Broes

Bookchapter in Architectuur middenin

Urbanizing the metropolitan fringe : from the crisis of the old suburb to the reassembled faubourg

Tom BroesMichiel Dehaene