Exploring Northern Attitudes: "Main Street Town Square" Pedestrian Pilot Project in Downtown Whitehorse
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the summer of 2023, the City of Whitehorse piloted its first pedestrian-only zone on Main St between Front St and Second Avenue. The conversion of roadway and parking stalls into a pedestrian mall was met with mixed reception. While many urban centers in Canada and around the world have successfully pedestrianized parts of their downtown in an effort to revitalize street life and reduce reliance on private vehicles, these have been implemented in largely 'southern' or metropolitan contexts with higher population density and different mobility patterns compared to the Yukon. To further understand contextual and attitudinal differences in northern Canada, this study will explore the nuanced perceptions of the "Main Street Town Square" from Whitehorse residents and businesses through content analysis of official planning reports (City of Whitehorse) and social media commentary (i.e. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit). It will identify the key concerns and priorities of various stakeholders and propose recommendations for implementing a context-responsive approach to "smart growth" urban planning in the North.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".