Desynchronized Infrastructures of Care: Suburban Imaginaries Re-Examined
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the temporalities of infrastructure at the intersection of health, disease, and urbanization through two cases focusing on care and wellbeing in seemingly unchanging suburbia. The first case assesses the experiences of peripheral immigrant communities in Brampton, Ontario, during the COVID-19 pandemic, detailing how swift real-time community action counteracted structural infrastructure deficiencies in healthcare and governmental pandemic response. The second case explores the ‘forever present’ everyday lives of people living with dementia in the suburbs of Greater Toronto. In thinking across these examples, the chapter demonstrates how the experience of suburban life has changed, both as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to respond to healthcare deficiencies, and as changing mobility infrastructures have tested the ability of people living with dementia to cope with shifting rhythms of daily life in their community. Utilizing the lens of infrastructural temporality, the chapter makes connections across Toronto’s ‘sick suburbs’ to (1) demonstrate the incompatibility of existing urban infrastructures with the needs of people who have fallen out of the ‘normal’ time frames for which those infrastructures were designed, while (2) indicating how quotidian agency can enable alternative temporalities and infrastructure futures to manifest.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".