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Best-enclosed parks
Data updated
Highest Enclosure / Eyes-on-Park scores from Toronto's 3D Massing layer. Mid-rise frontage, high frontage density per metre of perimeter, no looming towers: the urban form Jacobs argued produced 'eyes on the park'.
Top 40
| # | Park | Typology | Enclosure | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanley Greene Park | Neighbourhood Park | 98.7 | 49.7 |
| 2 | Belmont Parkette | Urban Plaza | 98.0 | 41.0 |
| 3 | Montclair Avenue Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.5 | 53.7 |
| 4 | Joseph Tough Park | Urban Plaza | 97.5 | 46.9 |
| 5 | Parkview Gardens Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.5 | 27.8 |
| 6 | John Chang Neighbourhood Park | Urban Plaza | 97.4 | 45.9 |
| 7 | Boswell Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.3 | 50.1 |
| 8 | Glasgow Street Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.3 | 46.5 |
| 9 | Walmer Rd Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.3 | 37.6 |
| 10 | Spencer - Cowan Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.2 | 41.4 |
| 11 | Jesse Ketchum Park | Urban Plaza | 97.2 | 39.6 |
| 12 | The Doctors' Parkette | Urban Plaza | 97.1 | 50.9 |
| 13 | Honest Ed'S Park | Urban Plaza | 97.1 | 45.4 |
| 14 | Lillian H. Smith Park | Urban Plaza | 97.0 | 47.7 |
| 15 | Spadina Road Green | Urban Plaza | 97.0 | 33.6 |
| 16 | Spadina Road Green | Urban Plaza | 97.0 | 32.5 |
| 17 | Paul E. Garfinkel Park | Urban Plaza | 96.9 | 60.3 |
| 18 | Glasgow Parkette | Urban Plaza | 96.8 | 52.0 |
| 19 | Anniversary Park | Urban Plaza | 96.7 | 59.9 |
| 20 | Forest Hill Memorial Cenotaph | Civic Square | 96.7 | 26.3 |
| 21 | Joseph Burr Tyrrell Park | Urban Plaza | 96.6 | 58.6 |
| 22 | George Milbrandt Parkette | Urban Plaza | 96.6 | 34.3 |
| 23 | Dundas - Watkinson Parkette | Urban Plaza | 96.5 | 60.3 |
| 24 | Gallery Park | Urban Plaza | 96.4 | 53.0 |
| 25 | Castlefield Parkette | Urban Plaza | 96.4 | 37.4 |
| 26 | 1365 Yonge | Urban Plaza | 96.4 | 24.8 |
| 27 | Symes - Viella Parkette | Urban Plaza | 96.3 | 32.3 |
| 28 | St. Patricks Square | Civic Square | 96.2 | 57.5 |
| 29 | Glengarry Park | Urban Plaza | 96.2 | 43.4 |
| 30 | Bleecker Parkette | Urban Plaza | 96.1 | 35.6 |
| 31 | Briar Hill - Chaplin Park | Urban Plaza | 96.0 | 45.3 |
| 32 | Shallmar Parkette | Parkette | 96.0 | 43.7 |
| 33 | Carlaw Avenue Parkette | Parkette | 95.9 | 52.8 |
| 34 | Gwendolyn Macewen Parkette | Urban Plaza | 95.9 | 42.1 |
| 35 | Mccaul - Orde Parkette | Urban Plaza | 95.9 | 38.8 |
| 36 | Gene Domagala Park | Urban Plaza | 95.6 | 40.2 |
| 37 | Jean Sibelius Square | Civic Square | 95.5 | 52.4 |
| 38 | Hillhurst Parkette | Urban Plaza | 95.5 | 37.4 |
| 39 | Douglas Greenbelt | Ravine / Naturalized Park | 95.5 | 35.3 |
| 40 | Charles G. Williams Park | Urban Plaza | 95.3 | 60.7 |