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Record W4407138246 · doi:10.1177/17480485241261537

A smarter neighbourhood? A postscript on Sidewalk Toronto

2025· article· en· W4407138246 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bob Hanke

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Communication Gazette · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSmart Cities and Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeighbourhood (mathematics)Regional scienceSociologyEconomic geographyGeographyMedia studiesPolitical scienceAdvertisingBusinessMathematics

Abstract

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With Sidewalk Toronto's Quayside project, Toronto joined other cities where smart city projects have been conceived, initiated, and studied. For nearly two and a half years, newspaper space devoted to this project was central to public reception, perception, and response. With regard to The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star , there was a conjunction between journalism discourse and planning a ‘smart’ neighbourhood assemblage based on the dual production of urban space. At the core of the Quayside project story was the question of big tech power and the ‘right’ novel neighbourhood assemblage for Toronto. I argue that mediatized controversy played a double role by expressing a propose-and-public pushback dynamic and as curriculum for place-based urban learning.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.547
Threshold uncertainty score0.901

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0130.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.003

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.230 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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