Tom Coppens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4970141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Coppens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Coppens |
| SIGNATURE | COPPENS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0529-295X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Macro Policy Shifts, Local Implementation: A Meso-level Understanding of Shenzhen’s Urban Village Transformation
Fresh cash for empty coffers? Changing developer obligations in Antwerp, Flanders
Extensive research highlights how local developer obligations (DOs) are increasingly used by local governments as value capture tools to generate new funds for spatial investment. This article examines why DOs have become a central focus and how their use affects urban planning and development. Using the case of Antwerp, Flanders, and its Urban Development Cost (UDC) policy introduced in 2016, it argues that the motivations for using DOs extend b…
Uncovering the governance and financing mechanisms supporting urban nature-based solutions: Case Stiemer Valley, Genk
Financing climate adaptation in Flemish cities: Unpacking financial strategies and policy dynamics for nature-based solutions
Creating places of distinction: Spatial conditions for climate policies in Flanders
Climate-related challenges are forcing a systemwide spatial reorganisation of Europe’s metropolitan areas. The region of Flanders is an excellent example of this mission. This article explores opportunities for a new mode of spatial organisation in an extremely sprawled urban region. The challenges for a climate-neutral built environment, energy supply and accessibility can be addressed more effectively by integrating mobility and transport polic…
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options
Scenario planning is increasingly used to manage uncertainty, but such planning often struggles to influence decision making and help communities navigate multiple futures. This article proposes a framework for planning practice that integrates scenario planning and real option theory to identify adaptation options that make plans or projects responsive to multiple futures. The framework is explained through a demonstration case, Plan Bay Area 20…
Explaining Uncertainty Avoidance in Megaprojects: Resource Constraints, Strategic Behaviour, or Institutions
We propose a novel analytical framework to explain uncertainty avoidance, consisting of two current explanations – resource constraint and strategic behaviour models – and a complementary institutional model. We apply the framework to a seaport megaproject in Flanders to test its validity. Results show that the institutional model increases our understanding of uncertainty avoidance.
A real options framework for adaptive urban design
Urban designs, and in particular urban masterplans, must deal with an inherently uncertain future. However, in practice, many urban masterplans still seem to underestimate or even ignore uncertainty. Some scholars have proposed design flexibility and adaptivity as a way to deal with uncertainties, but a formal framework has been lacking in urban design theory. Drawing upon theories of real options in finance and economics, a framework for design …
Real option applications in megaproject planning: Trends, relevance and research gaps. A literature review
Megaprojects are complex and contain multiple risks and uncertainties. The dominant ‘predict and control’ planning method mainly ignores risks and uncertainties, making megaprojects inflexible and vulnerable to unforeseen changes. Insights and methods from real options theory (ROT) in economics and finance have the potential to improve planning of megaprojects in three ways: (a) better management and assessment of risks and uncertainties, (b) a m…
Public opposition and the neighborhood effect: How social interaction explains protest against a large infrastructure project
Actor-Relational Planning in Deprived Areas: Challenges and Opportunities in Luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium
In this article we report and discuss our experience with actor relational approaches in the regeneration of a post war housing estate in Luchtbal, Antwerp, Belgium. Actor relational approaches are informed by post-structuralist ideas of space, complexity theory and actor network theory. Although ARA itself is not new, the application of ARA to deprived area’s such as Luchtbal is novel. We report how the approach has been elaborated, its process …
How to Turn a Planning Conflict into a Planning Success? Conditions for Constructive Conflict Management in the Case of Ruggeveld-Boterlaar-Silsburg in Antwerp, Belgium
Spatial projects are often contested. In most cases, contested planning projects evolve into what some conflict scholars have labeled as destructive or intractable conflicts. However, collaborative planning theorists claim that under certain conditions, conflicts can result into constructive outcomes. The Ruggeveld-Boterlaar-Silsburg case in Antwerp, Flanders, might be considered as a conflict with a constructive outcome. We reflect upon the cond…
Megacorridors: Striking a balance between the space of flows and the space of places
Megacorridors: Striking a balance between the space of flows and the space of places
How to Turn a Planning Conflict into a Planning Success? Conditions for Constructive Conflict Management in the Case of Ruggeveld-Boterlaar-Silsburg in Antwerp, Belgium
Spatial projects are often contested. In most cases, contested planning projects evolve into what some conflict scholars have labeled as destructive or intractable conflicts. However, collaborative planning theorists claim that under certain conditions, conflicts can result into constructive outcomes. The Ruggeveld-Boterlaar-Silsburg case in Antwerp, Flanders, might be considered as a conflict with a constructive outcome. We reflect upon the cond…
Actor-Relational Planning in Deprived Areas: Challenges and Opportunities in Luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium
In this article we report and discuss our experience with actor relational approaches in the regeneration of a post war housing estate in Luchtbal, Antwerp, Belgium. Actor relational approaches are informed by post-structuralist ideas of space, complexity theory and actor network theory. Although ARA itself is not new, the application of ARA to deprived area’s such as Luchtbal is novel. We report how the approach has been elaborated, its process …
Public opposition and the neighborhood effect: How social interaction explains protest against a large infrastructure project
Explaining Uncertainty Avoidance in Megaprojects: Resource Constraints, Strategic Behaviour, or Institutions
We propose a novel analytical framework to explain uncertainty avoidance, consisting of two current explanations – resource constraint and strategic behaviour models – and a complementary institutional model. We apply the framework to a seaport megaproject in Flanders to test its validity. Results show that the institutional model increases our understanding of uncertainty avoidance.
A real options framework for adaptive urban design
Urban designs, and in particular urban masterplans, must deal with an inherently uncertain future. However, in practice, many urban masterplans still seem to underestimate or even ignore uncertainty. Some scholars have proposed design flexibility and adaptivity as a way to deal with uncertainties, but a formal framework has been lacking in urban design theory. Drawing upon theories of real options in finance and economics, a framework for design …
Real option applications in megaproject planning: Trends, relevance and research gaps. A literature review
Megaprojects are complex and contain multiple risks and uncertainties. The dominant ‘predict and control’ planning method mainly ignores risks and uncertainties, making megaprojects inflexible and vulnerable to unforeseen changes. Insights and methods from real options theory (ROT) in economics and finance have the potential to improve planning of megaprojects in three ways: (a) better management and assessment of risks and uncertainties, (b) a m…
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options
Scenario planning is increasingly used to manage uncertainty, but such planning often struggles to influence decision making and help communities navigate multiple futures. This article proposes a framework for planning practice that integrates scenario planning and real option theory to identify adaptation options that make plans or projects responsive to multiple futures. The framework is explained through a demonstration case, Plan Bay Area 20…
Financing climate adaptation in Flemish cities: Unpacking financial strategies and policy dynamics for nature-based solutions
Creating places of distinction: Spatial conditions for climate policies in Flanders
Climate-related challenges are forcing a systemwide spatial reorganisation of Europe’s metropolitan areas. The region of Flanders is an excellent example of this mission. This article explores opportunities for a new mode of spatial organisation in an extremely sprawled urban region. The challenges for a climate-neutral built environment, energy supply and accessibility can be addressed more effectively by integrating mobility and transport polic…
Uncovering the governance and financing mechanisms supporting urban nature-based solutions: Case Stiemer Valley, Genk
Macro Policy Shifts, Local Implementation: A Meso-level Understanding of Shenzhen’s Urban Village Transformation
Fresh cash for empty coffers? Changing developer obligations in Antwerp, Flanders
Extensive research highlights how local developer obligations (DOs) are increasingly used by local governments as value capture tools to generate new funds for spatial investment. This article examines why DOs have become a central focus and how their use affects urban planning and development. Using the case of Antwerp, Flanders, and its Urban Development Cost (UDC) policy introduced in 2016, it argues that the motivations for using DOs extend b…
Business (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Management science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Capital Investment and Risk Analysis (3 works)