Bibliographic record
Abstract
Emerging practices in street design seek to achieve a wide range of sustainability benefits. With public rights of way designed or re-designed to enhance ecological functions such as storm water filtration as well as to influence travel performance, both direct and indirect sustainability benefits are being sought by sponsoring organizations. This paper identifies three aspects of sustainability that can be meaningfully addressed through urban street design: movement, ecology and community. Each of these is linked to the three E’s representing the full array of sustainability concerns: social equity, natural environment, and economy. In its introduction, the paper cites theoretical and professional milestones that have led to attention in the street design field to these three aspects of design, arguing that the addition of “ecology” to the design paradigm is a critical expansion of a construct that is now widely accepted as including mobility and community dimensions. A definition of sustainable streets is proposed as: “multimodal rights of way designed and operated to create benefits relating to movement, ecology and community that together support a broad sustainability agenda embracing the three E’s: environment, equity, and economy.” Part Two of the paper presents examples of projects in six U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The paper’s concluding section identifies three related areas of research and application that must advance in order to establish an improved foundation for this emerging practice: knowledge base, design innovation, and planning methods.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.024 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.098 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.022 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".