Re-Envisioning Suburban Corridors : Intensifying Markham with Incremental Metropolitanism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Expanding sprawl into the Greenbelt around the GTHA or further concentrating development in the expensive inner core will consume immense economic and environmental resources, will not solve Toronto’s housing and affordability crisis, or create lively communities. Urban intensification theories support the idea that the GTHA’s ‘Inner Ring’ of post-war suburbs can provide significant opportunities for housing infill while providing qualitative improvements to the urban experience of the local communities already there. This thesis, contextualized in one of these early lower-density suburbs of Markham, looks for opportunities within the existing suburban footprint for serviced but underutilized land to provide more affordable housing, street edges retrofitted for pedestrian orientation, lively communities, and intensification along the existing arterial infrastructure. This thesis uses the framework of existing low-density post-WWII neighbourhoods to test how we might create enlivened and walkable neighbourhoods that are more supportive of their emergent multicultural demographic through architecture, programming, landscape, and road infrastructure interventions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".