CORNWALL and the POST-INDUSTRIAL SEAWAY LANDSCAPE: Localized Agency After Absolute Authority
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1950s the Ontario city of Cornwall was the site of a massive industrial infrastructural project, the St. Lawrence Seaway. \n \nThe Seaway Project was a modernist dream intended to spur development of an industrial utopia. Following the completion of the Seaway Project, global economical shifts precluded the aspirations for an industrialized Seaway and the planning of the modernist industrial utopia was never realized. Today, Seaway traffic continues, but without any benefit to the local communities it promised to improve. These waterfront communities no longer have an economic or architectural relationship to the St. Lawrence River. The Seaway Project has muted the waterfront identities of these towns and cities and many former industrial sites along the waterfront are now either abandoned or contaminated. Today, many of the towns and cities along the St. Lawrence River border are economically depressed and are searching to find ways of reinventing themselves. \n \nThis thesis proposes a new design vision for the Cornwall Canal Lands, and it is meant to be applicable to all the communities along the St. Lawrence River border. The approach is not fixated on singular outcomes but rather sees urbanism as a process dependent on time and human agency. This proposal utilizes three very specific frameworks in expanded roles; the existing infrastructure as a network, the post-industrial requirement of environmental regeneration, and interpersonal interactions. Creating the armature for moments of interpersonal interactions is paramount in the new design vision. The renewed emphasis on the waterfront community creates the opportunity to build and strengthen community. The three frameworks, designed over four phases of duration, form a post-industrial design vision; based on local citizen based involvement, sustainable form of city-making and local experimentation that integrates existing urban morphology.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.042 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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 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".