The Emergence of New Format Retailing into the Commercial Structure of Cambridge, Ontario: A GIS-Based Visualisation *
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Abstract
C.D. STORIE, C. OAKLEY and R. MUNCASTER: Emergence of New Format Retailing into the Commercial Structure of Cambridge, Ontario: A GIS-Based Visualisation. The geography of retail space in Canadian cities is in a constant state of flux. Over the last ten years there have been dramatic changes in the formats of retailing as the retail industry has acted on opportunities presented by the rapid levels of urban growth. Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, is a rapidly growing city of 100 000 people, with a unique and interesting retailing landscape. Cambridge is following the trend towards big-box retail development, and suburban retail growth. Currently having one major central business district, and two smaller ones (a result of amalgamation during the creation of the Region of Waterloo), the cores have experienced decline over the ten-year study period. As in other places, consumers shifted their shopping from core to suburban shopping opportunities. More recently, newer developments have been focussed along the H espeler Road (Highway 24) retail strip, including the currently evolving Pinebush Rd./Hespeler Rd. Power Centre, further fuelling the decline experienced in the core areas. A GIS-based visualization of the data gathered from Vernon's Street Directories for 1989 and 1999 provides details of the changing types of retailing in the study areas. Overall, retailing in Cambridge is growing rapidly, but only within key areas. C.D. STORIE, C. OAKLEY and R. MUNCASTER: [much less than] The Emergence of New Format Retailing into the Commercial Structure of Cambridge, Ontario: A GIS-Based Visualisation [much greater than] [L'emergence d'un secteur de detail 'nouveau format' au sein de la structure commerciale de Cambridge, Ontario: Une visualisation a base de SIG]. La geographie de l'espace de detail dans les villes canadiennes connait des transformations constantes. Au cours des dix dernieres annees, ii y a eu des changements remarquables dans les formats de la vente au detail au fur et mesure que l'industrie de detail a repondu aux opportunities presentees par les taux de croissance urbaine rapide. Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, est une ville de 100.000 habitants qui connait tine croissance rapide et qui possede un profil du secteur de detail qui est unique et interessant. Cambridge suit la tendance caracterisee par le developpment de la vente au detail 'grand format'et par la croissance suburbaine du secteur. Presentement, Ia ville pos sede un district commercial central principal et deux centres plus petits (le resultat d'une fusion municipale lors de la creation de La Region de Waterloo), mais ces noyaux ont connu un declin au cours de dix annees de l'etude. Comme dans d'autres regions, les consommateurs ont reoriente leurs achats des noyaux commerciaux aux opportunities presentes par des centres suburbains. Dernierement, des developpements plus recents ont vu le jour le long du ruban commercial de Ia rue Hespeler (Ia route 24), y compris le Power Centre au croisement de Pinebush et de Hespeler, en plaine evolution, ce qui accentue le declin deja present dans les noyaux centraux. Une visualization par un SIG des donnees cueillies des Vernon's Street Directories de 1989 et de 1999 demontrent les details de Ia composition changeante du secteur de detail dans les zones d'etudes. Globaleinent, le secteur de detail Cambridge connait une croissance rapide, mais cette croissance est limitee a certaines zones cle. Introduction The geography of retailing in Canada has experienced considerable change during the past twenty years. As the population of the country has become increasingly concentrated into the main urban areas (Bourne 1996) and as the automobile has become the dominate mode of transportation for shopping trips, the structure of retailing has been altered in significant ways. Retail shopping destinations have become increasingly dispersed throughout the urban areas as improved highway and street systems provide sites with better automobile access for large numbers of suburban residents. …
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".