Revisiting Markham's town plan : an Asian Canadian settlement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the second part of the nineteenth century, waves of Chinese immigration have left a deep and transformative imprint on Canadian society. Traditional Chinatowns in every Canadian metropolitan region signal the presence of Asian communities in the commercial built environment, but the question of Chinese society's physical imprint on the residential landscape is yet to be fully considered. While the number of Chinese commercial developments and "ethnic malls" (the new "Chinatowns") in urban and suburban areas of major immigrant areas has increased in recent years, adjacent residential neighbourhoods tend to be designed according to conventional North American models and their English and European antecedents. This thesis examines the question of cultural hybridity in contemporary architecture, and, more specifically, the possibility of an urban planning and of an architectural language inspired by Asian built culture, noting that China is itself in the midst of a huge transformation. Focusing its research on the proposed master plan for Markham Ontario, this thesis explores traditional Asian spatial and temporal conceptions regarding built form and the garden, and the theme of "integration." The counterproposal for Markham Town Plan presented in this thesis offers a critique of the proposed master plan by the Remington Group, with a view to better serving a community who cherishes walk-ability in a dense environment and fluid relationships between generations. The proposal seeks to provide a built setting for the integration of daily domestic life with social ritual and the spaces of shared cultural memory.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".