1365 Yonge
Urban Plaza, near the bottom of the city overall (score 25, rank ~12th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: natural comfort.
1365 Yonge scores 25 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.19 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 56%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Explain this score
Where did the 25 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.
Sum of contributions = the headline score. A negative bar means that dimension dragged the park below the city-wide neutral baseline.
Why this park works
1365 Yonge works because its enclosure score (96) is one of the city's strongest and its connectivity (58) is also above-average (51 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).
What limits this park
1365 Yonge is held back by natural comfort (25, bottom quartile): only 0% canopy means little summer shade; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (96, top decile).
Jacobs reading
1365 Yonge sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (58) significantly outpaces natural comfort (25): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
- The park is enclosed by buildings (96) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.
- 5 nearby towers cast wind and shadow without contributing canopy: passive surveillance is plentiful but human-scale comfort is not.
Performance in context
- Strong underperformer relative to its cohort: raw 25 vs an expected 38 (gap -13).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 1949 m², paved (0% canopy), 44.0 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 39 active uses (retail, transit_stop, restaurant) and 11 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, highway, rail). Active edges keep "eyes on the park" through the day; parking lots, blank institutional walls, rail and highway frontages drain street life.
Source: OSM POIs (amenity/shop) + Toronto Building Footprints + land use
Connectivity
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 13 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 10 street intersections within 100 m; 29 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~187 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy, no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops
Amenity Diversity
No amenities recorded. Score is 0 until inventory is loaded.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~434 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).
Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
82 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (51 mid-rise, 26 low-rise, 5 tower); avg edge height 16.3 m (~5 floors); 44.0 buildings per 100 m of 187 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3 to 7 floors); 5 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 51 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Toronto Parking Authority, parking_lot, Yonge Street, Yonge Street, rail, rail, Yonge Street. Jacobs warned that highways, rail, parking lots and blank institutional edges act as "vacuums" that suppress foot traffic and isolate the park from its neighbourhood.
Source: Toronto Street Centreline (highways) + rail layer + OSM landuse + building footprints
Equity Context
Equity Context requires inputs not yet loaded for this park (Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles). Score is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence. Read with caution.
Source: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles
Amenities (0)
No amenities recorded for this park.
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- retail: Eden Flowers4 m
- retail: Midtown Digital10 m
- highway: Yonge Street10 m
- highway: Yonge Street11 m
- retail: Travel Gate14 m
- restaurant: Osmow's17 m
- retail: The UPS Store22 m
- retail: Paperboy Cards & Gifts22 m
- restaurant: Hero Certified Burgers23 m
- transit stop: Rosehill Avenue23 m
- retail: Nails Attraction24 m
- retail: My Tailor Alterations & Dry Cleaners24 m
- retail: Pawmart24 m
- restaurant: Sunny Morning25 m
- restaurant: Boccone Deli & Pizza Bar25 m
- retail: The Living Room Hair Studio25 m
- retail: Midtown Compounding Pharmacy25 m
- parking lot25 m
- retail: The Health Shoppe26 m
- retail: The Ten Spot26 m
- highway: Yonge Street33 m
- rail37 m
- rail37 m
- parking lot: Toronto Parking Authority37 m
- transit stop: Balmoral Avenue43 m
- retail: Book City45 m
- restaurant: Chipotle47 m
- restaurant: Capocaccia48 m
- retail: Olsson Optical51 m
- retail: i.D. Eyewear58 m
- parking lot63 m
- restaurant: The Bagel House66 m
- retail: Blowdry Lounge66 m
- restaurant: Pita Lite71 m
- restaurant: Barnsteiner's73 m
- transit stop: St. Clair74 m
- retail: St. Clair Greetings75 m
- retail: Topcuts75 m
- retail: Tu-Hoa Beauty Centre78 m
- retail: Luma Wellness81 m
- restaurant: Zelden's Deli and Desserts82 m
- highway: Yonge Street85 m
- highway: Yonge Street89 m
- restaurant: Holy Chuck90 m
- retail: Venus Lingerie91 m
- retail93 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Station96 m
- retail98 m
- retail: Salon LYOL98 m
- parking lot98 m
- retail: The Healing Room104 m
- retail: Deluxe Cleaners105 m
- retail: Canadian Outlet105 m
- parking lot105 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Station106 m
- retail: Empress Nail Lounge107 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Station111 m
- parking lot112 m
- cafe: PILOT Coffee Roasters112 m
- retail: Florigens Design114 m
- parking lot119 m
- parking lot122 m
- transit stop: 1 St Clair Av East Entrance (Scotia Bank)122 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Avenue125 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Station130 m
- restaurant: McDonald's131 m
- parking lot131 m
- highway: Yonge Street138 m
- highway: Yonge Street138 m
- transit stop139 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Av Entrance139 m
- restaurant: St. Louis Bar & Grill141 m
- restaurant: El Inka Peruvian Cuisine142 m
- transit stop: St. Clair Station143 m
- restaurant: Pizzaiolo145 m
- restaurant: Me Love Food Hub147 m
- highway: Yonge Street149 m
- restaurant: Kiva's Bagel Bar150 m
- restaurant: Union Social Eatery153 m
- transit stop: St. Clair155 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality12th
- Edge activation61th
- Connectivity73th
- Amenity diversity52th
- Natural comfort9th
- Enclosure99th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Percy ParkUrban Plaza34
- Bleecker ParketteUrban Plaza36
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza31
- Paul Martel ParkUrban Plaza35
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza32
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Toronto ZooWaterfront Park67
- Toronto Islands - Centre Island ParkWaterfront Park55
- Toronto Islands - Island ParkWaterfront Park57
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park75
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
Human activity signals: not available
No activity signals have landed for this park yet. The model has scored its physical form but it can’t yet say how often it’s programmed, photographed, or walked through. See /data-ethics for what we will and will not collect.
Does this score feel accurate?
Your read of 1365 Yongematters. We’re testing whether the model lines up with how people actually use the park. Submissions are stored locally; no account needed.
Tell us how this park feels
We measure structure (canopy, edges, connectivity). You measure feeling. Both matter, and disagreement is itself useful civic data.
What would improve this park?
Generated from the weakest measured dimensions: a starting point, not a prescription.
- Activate the edges: encourage cafés, retail or community uses on the streets that face the park; replace blank or parking-lot edges where possible.
- Diversify what people can do in the park (playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden): even small additions raise this score.
- Increase canopy and reduce paved area. Shade and water features extend usable hours and seasons.
- Mitigate border vacuums (highways, rail, parking) with active programming on the still-permeable edges and treat the hostile edge as a design challenge.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data: Parks (Green Space)Polygon boundaries, official names, types. Boundaries are reconciled against OpenStreetMap (ODbL) for new and updated parks.
- Parks & Recreation FacilitiesInventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
- Toronto Pedestrian NetworkSidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
- Toronto Centreline V2Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
- Toronto 3D MassingBuilding footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
- Toronto Treed AreaTree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
- Toronto Waterbodies & RiversWater surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
- Ravine & Natural Feature ProtectionRavine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
- Toronto Street Tree InventoryTree count + density inside park polygons.
- Neighbourhood Profiles(Pending) Equity context proxy.
- OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.