Missing social sustainability: Planning “green condo-ism” in the Namur de la Savane sector in Montréal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Condominiums are present in urban skylines throughout the world, including Canada. The condominium literature helpfully identifies the political-economic actors behind their development. However, it misses the role of urban planning and, in particular, the ways that planners’ pursuit of sustainability goals relates to condominium developments and “condo-ism”. This research, focused on urban planning in the Namur de la Savane sector of Montréal, aims to answer the following question: How do environmental and social sustainability policies promote condominiums as the ideal form of urbanism? What are the social consequences of this ideal form of urbanism? To answer these questions, I used document analysis of various planning documents and policies between 2004 and 2020. The document analysis showed how planners pursue ecological sustainability through the promotion of green urban landscapes, density, and transit-oriented development. The pursuit of social sustainability appears in these documents in the limited form of “social mix,” including some support for social housing. The implications here are twofold. First, the pursuit of these goals ultimately leads to the promotion of condominiums. Second, the framing of the goals ignores many important social considerations, including the social effects of condominiums on the broader neighbourhood. These findings contribute to the literature on condo-ism, showing how urban planning is central to the latter. Indeed, these findings can make a contribution as various levels of government are putting forward sustainability policies that will greatly influence urban planning but must take into consideration the importance of social sustainability in the planning of future cities.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".