Detected urban patterns

Auto-detected groupings that don’t fall out of typology or cluster, but matter to the experience of using a park. Each pattern is defined by a small rule set on the metrics and tells you something the typology alone won’t.

Excellent enclosure, poor comfort

Tightly framed by mid-rise but exposed to heat — strong urban form, weak ecological function. Common in dense pre-war neighbourhoods where the original tree canopy was lost.

Park	Typology	Edge	Conn	Comfort	Encl	Overall
Belmont Parkette	Urban Plaza	9	56	34	98	39
Bernard Avenue Road Allowance	Urban Plaza	81	47	32	98	54
Roxborough - Yonge St Traffic Island	Urban Plaza	48	66	24	98	43
Montclair Avenue Parkette	Urban Plaza	70	50	24	98	50
Parkview Gardens Parkette	Urban Plaza	0	44	26	98	25
Glasgow Street Parkette	Urban Plaza	58	54	31	97	50
Boswell Parkette	Urban Plaza	52	58	22	97	48
Jesse Ketchum Park	Urban Plaza	9	59	23	97	37
Lillian H. Smith Park	Urban Plaza	63	40	32	97	47
Spadina Road Green	Urban Plaza	0	45	33	97	34
Spadina Road Green	Urban Plaza	17	25	24	97	33
Joseph Burr Tyrrell Park	Urban Plaza	74	23	31	97	50

Highly connected but socially weak

Many streets and transit stops nearby, but the surrounding land use is hostile or quiet. Connectivity does not, on its own, make a park work as a public place.

Park	Typology	Conn	Comfort	Encl	Overall
Wychwood Barns Park	Neighbourhood Park	75	51	82	48
High Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	89	76	87	47
Joseph Bannon Park	Parkette	76	63	95	46
Balmy Beach Park	Waterfront Park	81	49	72	46
Jean Sibelius Square	Civic Square	74	39	96	46
Riverdale Park West	Ravine / Naturalized Park	84	59	76	46
Mccormick Park	Athletic / Recreation Park	81	49	77	46
Monarch Park	Neighbourhood Park	79	64	80	45
Sorauren Avenue Park	Athletic / Recreation Park	79	50	92	45
Orchard Park	Neighbourhood Park	73	47	79	45
Cedarvale Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	76	54	74	45
Rexdale Park	Waterfront Park	76	65	60	45

Trapped by border vacuums

High Border-Vacuum Risk regardless of the park's other strengths — adjacent highways, rail, or institutional walls dominate the experience.

Park	Typology	Edge	Conn	Comfort	Encl	Overall
High Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	89	76	87	47
Snider Parkette	Urban Plaza	40	59	51	93	44
Earlscourt Park	Neighbourhood Park	0	82	59	75	44
Christie Pits Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	87	59	80	44
Ramsden Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	85	49	94	43
East Lynn Park	Neighbourhood Park	32	69	55	72	43
Oriole Park - Toronto	Neighbourhood Park	0	79	63	86	42
Lawrence Park Ravine	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	80	68	85	41
Centennial Park - Etobicoke	Waterfront Park	0	78	68	56	41
Earl Bales Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	78	67	69	41
Eglinton Park	Neighbourhood Park	0	81	40	83	40
Morningside Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	75	83	57	40

Overlooked high-performing parkettes

Tiny parks (under 0.5 ha) that punch well above their weight on enclosure and edge activation. Easy to dismiss on a map; central to neighbourhood life on the ground.

Park	Typology	Edge	Conn	Comfort	Encl	Overall
Bellevue Square Park	Civic Square	85	75	42	81	66
Market Lane Park	Urban Plaza	90	66	53	90	63
Maple Leaf Forever Park	Urban Plaza	81	72	37	83	61
Sonya'S Park	Urban Plaza	84	65	32	89	60
Ryerson Community Park	Urban Plaza	88	58	49	88	60
Graham Park	Urban Plaza	80	65	38	81	59
Grace - College Parkette	Corridor / Linear Park	80	68	38	91	59
ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green Space	Urban Plaza	81	78	23	93	59
Arena Gardens	Urban Plaza	74	70	37	74	58
James Canning Gardens	Urban Plaza	68	76	35	80	58
Malta Park	Urban Plaza	61	66	52	84	58
Ivan Forrest Gardens	Ravine / Naturalized Park	52	76	59	79	58

Tower-shadow parks

High enclosure score driven by tower walls rather than mid-rise frontage — passive surveillance is plentiful, but human-scale comfort suffers (wind, shadow, sterile ground floors).

Park	Typology	Edge	Conn	Comfort	Encl	Overall
Belmont Parkette	Urban Plaza	9	56	34	98	39
Roxborough - Yonge St Traffic Island	Urban Plaza	48	66	24	98	43
Montclair Avenue Parkette	Urban Plaza	70	50	24	98	50
Glasgow Street Parkette	Urban Plaza	58	54	31	97	50
Boswell Parkette	Urban Plaza	52	58	22	97	48
Jesse Ketchum Park	Urban Plaza	9	59	23	97	37
Gwendolyn Macewen Parkette	Urban Plaza	0	68	32	96	38
Huron Street Playground	Urban Plaza	0	61	33	96	34
FOREST HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY - Building Grounds	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	62	34	96	27
HARRISON POOL - Building Grounds	Urban Plaza	56	65	22	95	51
Avonshire Parkette	Urban Plaza	0	59	35	95	37
Robert St Playground	Urban Plaza	32	54	33	95	43

Ravine-edge disconnect

Ravine and naturalised parks scoring high on natural comfort while their edges are functionally sealed off from the city — the ecological asset isn't reaching the people who live nearby.

Park	Typology	Edge	Conn	Comfort	Encl	Overall
City Wide Open Space	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	23	92	57	34
Home Smith Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	39	91	62	37
Trca Lands ( 60)	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	27	91	59	35
City Wide Open Space	Ravine / Naturalized Park	14	40	91	89	44
City Wide Open Space	Ravine / Naturalized Park	14	40	91	89	44
Highland Creek Tributary	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	26	91	68	36
Lower Don Parklands	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	9	91	50	30
Rouge Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	9	91	50	27
City Wide Open Space	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	38	91	88	40
Moccasin Trail Park	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	34	91	74	38
Trca Lands ( 70)	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	29	91	66	35
City Wide Open Space	Ravine / Naturalized Park	0	32	91	78	34

Why these patterns?

Each pattern picks at a tension the headline score papers over. A park can be high-scoring and still be a tower-shadow plaza, a heat sink, or a ravine that nobody can reach.

The patterns are deliberately small and rule-based. If you disagree with a threshold, the relevant code lives in src/lib/insights.ts in the urbanPatterns()function. Change the numbers, rebuild the cache, and the page updates.