Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reinventing Brantford: A University Comes Downtown by Leo Groarke Natural Heritage Books 2009 284 pages ISBN 978-1-55488-459-9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The book's foreword by William Humber of Seneca College in Toronto, leader of Seneca College's outreach in urban sustainability and regional renewal (p. 14), puts a sobering perspective on our ideas of and green building. Our progress is not always such, and even our most well-intended efforts in the name of environmentally friendly architecture don't always work; some do more harm than good. But Humber's foreword also underscores the unique and praiseworthy measure of integrity (in its several senses) with which Wilfrid Laurier University and its partners carried out this particular endeavor in urban revitalization: the creation of the Laurier Brantford campus in what had become the worst downtown in Canada. In a highly entertaining historical account, Leo Groarke--principal of the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, senior administrator of the campus since 2000, and author of books on a range of topics including the role of higher education in contemporary society--recounts the city of Brantford's rise and fall and rise again. Groarke gives an account of the architectural decay that occurred as building after building fell victim to demolition, arson, or abandonment following the fall into oblivion of Brantford's manufacturing economy. He tells the story of the Carnegie Library in particular detail. The grand Beaux Arts-style building was a gauge of sorts for Brantford's economic state; as the downtown declined, so did the building's state of repair. The library moved to another location in 1991, and the Carnegie Building sat vacant and in dire need of restoration for almost 10 years. In 1999, Laurier marked its move to Brantford when it made the Carnegie Building its home. The preservation of this building from demolition was a feat Groarke identifies as the beginning of the downtown's turnaround and rebirth. The city of Brantford had depended throughout its history on industry and manufacturing. Groarke observes that even after industry moved out and the economic rug was pulled out from under Brantford's inhabitants, the dominant attitude was still one of uninterest in a Brantford university. But Groarke describes the evolution of the case for bringing an institution of secondary education to Brantford--and the several-pronged attempt to do so. The effort was riddled with challenges: controversy, drama, and political infighting. There was a persistent and disheartening inability to obtain funding from the provincial government. There were significant obstacles to recruitment. And there was at virtually all times a want for space. …
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.010 |
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".