Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis was a step towards understanding the theory and practice of urban park design in the contemporary urban environment. The goal of this thesis was to investigate current ideas pertaining to urban parks, focusing on concept/philosophy, culture, ecology and recreation as the criteria of analysis, in order to provide a sound background for the design of Downsview Park, Toronto, Ontario. The thesis approach included explorations from research to design. The first part of the thesis consists of a literature review, and analysis and critique of the design of twelve selected urban parks as case studies. Patterns and traces of change in urban parks during the last century in Europe and North America were investigated. Goals drawn from the synthesis of these studies provided a background for a design for Downsview Park and in response to these goals a design was undertaken. From the Downsview Park design exploration, it was concluded that urban park design of today needs interactive, open-ended, flexible and inclusive approaches and techniques with the emphasis being on process. The final conclusion drawn front the thesis as a whole is that three issues, culture and nature, diversity, and space and time, emerge as central issues that present challenges in the design of urban parks in the contemporary and future urban environment.
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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 | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".