Who Preserves? The Protection of Historic Places in Growing and Struggling Communities
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Abstract
We know little about municipal and community politics in Canada as they relate to identifying and protecting “historic” buildings, streetscapes, districts and cultural landscapes. Drawing on the experiences of the rapidly growing and generally prosperous city of Mississauga and the economically struggling Cape Breton Regional Municipality, this paper enquires into the objective indicators that could be used in future multi-municipality studies to gauge the extent to which an historic-preservation ethos is embedded into municipal governance. Measuring staff resources dedicated to heritage planning as a proportion of overall planning is critical, as is appraising the competencies and qualifications of members of the municipal heritage committee. This paper then considers several plausible preconditions to a strong municipal preservationist ethos and settles on the importance of the permeability of the local political system to the intellectual and cultural classes. Such permeability may be an aberration in many places, tending to arise during periods of political and economic crisis or dislocations. Preservationists may therefore be well advised to take full advantage of political windows of opportunity to secure not only victories on active files, but deeper, carefully designed institutional reforms. Resume Nous savons peu de choses de la maniere dont les politiques municipales et communautaires identifient et protegent les bâtiments, les rues et les paysages ou ensembles culturels « historiques ». A partir des experiences de la ville de Mississauga, prospere dans son ensemble et en croissance rapide, et de la Municipalite regionale de Cap Breton, aux prises avec des difficultes economiques, cet article s’enquiert des indicateurs objectifs qui pourraient etre utilises a l’avenir dans les etudes multi-municipales pour evaluer jusqu’a quel point l’ethos de la conservation historique s’inscrit dans la gestion municipale. Il est essentiel de prendre la mesure de la proportion des ressources humaines consacrees a la planification de la conservation du patrimoine sur l’ensemble des planifications, de meme que d’evaluer les competences et les qualifications des membres du comite municipal en matiere de patrimoine. Cet article considere donc plusieurs conditions prealables plausibles a un fort ethos « conservationniste » municipal et determine l’importance de la permeabilite du systeme politique local aux classes intellectuelles et culturelles. Une telle permeabilite peut etre une aberration en beaucoup d’endroits, tendant a emerger durant les periodes de crises ou de desorganisations politiques et economiques. Les partisans de la conservation du patrimoine seraient donc bien avises de tirer avantage de toutes les ouvertures politiques possibles pour s’assurer non seulement des victoires sur les dossiers en cours, mais egalement de reformes institutionnelles plus profondes et soigneusement preparees.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".