Governance: How to Achieve Urban Growth Management in Practice, a Practitioner perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Auckland, like the majority of Australasian cities, has developed and is seeking to implement a range of urban growth policy responses designed to address the problems created by urban sprawl and encourage better designed, transport oriented urban developments, which will improve the quality of their city’s built environment. To date the implementation of these approaches in Auckland has been problematic. This paper examines the governance arrangements used by a range of pacific rim new world cities, including Auckland, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and Melbourne to examine how they have addressed these issues from an urban planning practitioner perspective. This paper (jointly authored by Errol Haarhoff) presents interim results, drawing upon the experiences of 40 senior urban planning professionals and examines the policy and implementation approaches used and considers how they determine whether their policy approaches have achieved their desired policy outcomes in practice.
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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 | 0.029 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".