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Record W4239462615 · doi:10.46692/9781447304982.011

Creating people-friendly cities

2014· other· en· W4239462615 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban and Rural Development Challenges
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnvironmental planningBusinessGeography

Abstract

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What are our needs for happiness? We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality. Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, UN World Urban Forum, Vancouver, 22 June 2006 Introduction Not many urban leaders rush to proclaim that their city is unfriendly to people. A potential problem with the phrase ‘people-friendly city’ is, then, that, in and of itself, it signifies relatively little. Everyone can sign up to it. The discussion that follows attempts to move beyond bland claims, and identify the main building blocks that might be expected to feature in practical strategies designed to create people-friendly cities. A quotation from William Shakespeare's Coriolanus was used at the beginning of Chapter 7 to highlight the importance of people in any sensible discussion of the city. Sicinius Velutus asks: ‘What is the city but the people?’ This famous dictum provided the prelude to a chapter focussed on the nature of democratic urban governance, and alternative ways of strengthening citizen power in the city. In this chapter we again focus on people and we will, again, refer to the vital importance of citizens having a central role in the decision-making processes that shape the urban environment and local life chances. However, our focus this time will be less on the process of democratic decision-making and more on the substantive outcomes effective place-based leadership aims to deliver. A central theme that will emerge is that, to deserve the name, people-friendly cities have to be inclusive cities. Our starting point is human happiness. The literature on happiness, and the idea of developing public policies that promote happiness, has expanded in recent years (Ben-Shahar 2008; Layard 2011; Montgomery 2013). There are several strands here – some relating to personal growth and development, some relating to public policy and some relating to both. In relation to public policy we can note that there is growing pressure to reconsider what we actually mean by improvements in ‘living standards’ (Sen 1984).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.099
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0410.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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