URBAN ACUPUNCTURE: public space regeneration through the 'Pedibus' micro-projects in the Oltrarno quarter in Florence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Pedibus project was delivered in Florence, a UNESCO-protected world heritage site. The morphological situation is complex: in the historic city centre pedestrian areas coexist with congested traffic and diverse local citizens seek a say in evolution of a living cityscape. The project tested a pioneering idea for the regeneration and re-appropriation of public space, specifically addressing the safety needs of three schools. The name Pedibus is derived from Latin pedis (foot) and bus. It provides an incentive to avoid cars use, organizing communal walking like a city bus system with terminals, fixed routes, stops and running times. The Pedibus suggests the participation of citizens through organization of those already in the field: parents, grandparents, volunteers and local police who in turn deal with the accompaniment of children. Research questions include: How can a protected heritage site accommodate the living needs of contemporary citizens, especially children? How can streetscape design encourage pedestrians use? How can minor interventions – urban acupuncture –catalyse further works in difficult contested situations as well as assist in finding funding to achieve them?
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 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".