Assembling place-based transitions: capitalist logics of green building in Vancouver, Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Green building is increasingly central in urban sustainability strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to demonstrate leadership, innovation, and technological advances. Vancouver offers a strategic example of a city that has adopted green building policies for sustainability and boosterism purposes. We combine assemblage thinking with sustainability transitions research to expose the relationality and interconnectedness of green building practices in specific places like Vancouver. This allows us to explore the entangled nature of niche-regime relations, and the stickiness between places and practices, which influence emergent innovations: how place specificity affects the unfolding of transitions. Through our empirical examples, we identify two logics driving green building in Vancouver (risk and innovation, and urban entrepreneurialism), which although differentiated nevertheless work to reinforce neoliberal sustainability activities. We argue that despite implementation of varied green building approaches, policy and discourse tend to mainstream a weaker, incremental form of green building.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it