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Record W4407069971 · doi:10.5206/tba.v6i1.18784

De-stabilizing Creative Placemaking in the Creative City

2025· article· en· W4407069971 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mushtari Afroz

Bibliographic record

Venuetba Journal of Art Media and Visual Culture · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCultural Industries and Urban Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPlacemakingVisual artsArtAestheticsSociologyUrban designArchitecture

Abstract

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Recent decades have seen a surge in the implementation of creative placemaking initiatives in cities worldwide. Often considered a facet of a new urban vision in the post-modern era, creative placemaking aims to rejuvenate public spaces by integrating art and cultural activities in the urban design process. By acknowledging the transformative potential of art and culture and positioning them as catalysts for social change, this approach seeks to enhance livability, foster diversity and stimulate economic development in previously overlooked and underserved neighbourhood communities. Despite the realization of some promises and the abandonment of others, a critical question arises: To what extent, under the veneer of creative expression, does creative placemaking genuinely serve benevolent purposes? I argue in this essay that creative placemaking, masquerading as an art-centred strategy, is, in reality, a political urban plan aligned with the principles of neoliberal capitalism to tame the city, its public spaces and its citizens– both artists and non-artists alike.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.033

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.034
Scholarly communication0.0220.011
Open science0.0020.019
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.003

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 head0.046
GPT teacher head0.369
Teacher spread0.324 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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