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Fantasy City

2007· other· en· W4251448735 on OpenAlex
John Hannigan

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2007
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNight-time city culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFantasyEntertainmentPleasurePostmodernismAdvertisingMovie theaterSpectacleTourismSociologyMedia studiesGeographyArtVisual artsPolitical scienceBusinessLawArchaeologyPsychologyLiterature

Abstract

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“Fantasy City” refers to a new urban form located at the intersection of leisure, consumption, tourism, and real estate development. In Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), Canadian sociologist John Hannigan points to six defining features: fantasy cities are characteristically themo‐centric (scripted), aggressively branded, active day and night, modular (mixing a standard array of retail and entertainment components), solipsistic (isolated physically and economically from the neighborhoods that surround them), and postmodern (in their reliance on simulation and spectacle). This set of phenomena is empirically manifested in an infrastructure of themed restaurants, nightclubs, shopping malls, multiplex cinemas, virtual reality arcades, casino‐hotels, book and record megastores, sports stadiums and arenas, and other urban entertainment destinations. While the only urban centers that currently qualify as full‐scale fantasy cities are Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, most cities today have some commercial neighborhoods and developments that display these characteristics to a greater or lesser extent. Furthermore, fantasy city development has spread aggressively beyond the borders of North America, with large‐scale projects currently operating or under construction in such countries as Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Research integrity, Insufficient 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 score0.108
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.001

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.293 · 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