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Record W4414061901 · doi:10.32920/30071449.v1

Immigrants, Communities and Urban Planning [English version]

2025· article· en· W4414061901 on OpenAlexfundaboutno aff
Lucia Lo, Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrbanization and City Planning
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of WaterlooSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaOntario Trillium FoundationInternational Development Research CentreUniversity of TorontoNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaRoyal Canadian Geographical SocietyYork University
KeywordsMulticulturalismImmigrationUrban planningLegitimacySettlement (finance)LegislatureLand-use planningCultural diversity

Abstract

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Immigrant settlement has never been a static process. Its multifarious patterns keep shaping our communities. Urban planning, as a profession to regulate urban development, should be more aware of the spatial manifestation of immigrant communities and their activities on urban landscapes, and respond to the changes in a more proactive way. In Canadian planning literature, how to manage multicultural issues in cities has drawn increasing attention in recent years. It offers a wide spectrum of focuses, ranging from municipal organizational and legislative responses to immigrant settlement in a broader sense, to human rights and citizenship arguments embedded in planning policies and programs, and to empirical studies of such issues as housing, ethnic retail, places of worship, and neighbourhood design. However, despite the on-going debates regarding immigrant settlement and multicultural planning, there is still no fixed solution that can be drawn upon in response to the increasing ethno-cultural diversity of our society. The current status of multicultural planning is still operating on a case-by-case basis where planners play a reactive role. This is attributable to both the complex nature of immigrant settlement and the unreadiness of the planning system to deal with the challenge. To provide a pluralistic vision for a multicultural city and its people largely depends on whether planning legitimacy is well equipped with the diversity-oriented focus, whether planning practitioners are sensitive to the multicultural reality, and whether the policymaking and implementation process is flexible and culturally respectful.

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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)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.211
Threshold uncertainty score0.707

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2110.050

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.267 · 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 designNot applicable
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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