Perspectives on cities of the global south
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article offers a critical assessment of the present state of discourse on cities of global south. It identifies and examines five major themes found in the literature and shows both their cope and limitations, i.e. northern bias in the literature, informality, precarity and social disprity, fractured spatial organization, and inadequacies of planning in those cities. The article argues that there is some convergence in cities of north and south on account of globalization, large scale migration and digital revolution. With the example of Lahore, a mega city of the south, it argues that global south is too braod a category. Cities of global south differ by income levels, culture and social organization. The search for common bases of these cities should be focussed on generalizing by regions, economic conditions and cultural/religious uniformities.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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