Event-Places in North America: City Meaning and Making [Research and Debate]
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Abstract
Event-Places in North America: City Meaning and Making Dennis Frenchman Every Saturday evening, rain or shine, spring through fall, the torches appear. The flames are passed, some- times this way sometimes that, to dark figures in a waiting boat that moves out onto the river. Tracing a ritual circle, they light bonfires on the water, over a hundred of them stretch- ing a kilometer under bridges and past buildings, as music gradually fills the space. Opera, Gregorian chants, a Himalayan folk song set the mood and the pace. And people come — a few, or tens of thousands — to watch the sparks, walk, talk, feel the heat, smell the wood, and be together in the city. This event and place, “WaterFire,” is transforming the image and sense of Providence, R.I., into something much different than it was. But so are a growing number of other events and places in North America and Europe — some traditional, others newly invented. In Lyons, France, lights and projected images wash the streets, facades and air of the city, some controlled by participants thousands of miles away. In Calgary, Canada, chuckwagons serve breakfast in the streets downtown then compete in a hell-bent stampede before a hundred thousand spectators. For a time each year in Girona, Spain, flowers are meticulously arranged to fill every private and public architectural space. Even in Washington, D.C., amidst the monuments, the National Mall is transformed each summer into the setting for the sounds of different cultures, celebrating the diversity of American life. 1 Questioning Values across Disciplines Scholars and social anthropologists have long studied traditional festivals and events as a window into culture. In the same manner, architects and urban designers have studied the shape of public spaces to understand how they perform. But little work has been done on the intersection of civic events, their places and communi- ties. To fill this gap, collaborators Frenchman / Event-Places in North America: City Meaning and Making
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".