20 Castlefield Ave Park
Urban Plaza, one of the city's strongest overall (score 55, rank ~97th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.
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20 Castlefield Ave Park scores 54.5 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and edge activation. Weakest: amenity diversity (11.9). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.37 ha
What's here
Getting around
No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 105 m away. None of the 6 nearby lots records whether it has accessible spaces.
Path, seating and parking data comes from OpenStreetMap and reflects what volunteers have mapped, not a survey. Absence here means nobody has recorded it. This section does not assess wheelchair access: the relevant OpenStreetMap tag is present on well under 1% of Toronto paths.
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 66%
Data confidence: moderate
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Where did the 55 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
20 Castlefield Ave Park works because its edge activation score (77) is one of the city's strongest and its enclosure (85) is also top decile (its perimeter is lined with active uses).
What limits this park
20 Castlefield Ave Park is held back by natural comfort (24, bottom quartile): only 0% canopy means little summer shade.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high edge activation (77, top decile).
Jacobs reading
20 Castlefield Ave Park is a dense urban social park. Jacobs would recognise it: lots of eyes, lots of streets, lots of edge life; not where you go to escape.
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (53) significantly outpaces natural comfort (24): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
Performance in context
- This park is a strong overperformer for its cohort: raw 55 versus an expected 42 for similar parks (small Urban Plaza) (gap +13).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 3735 m², paved (0% canopy), 29.7 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 35 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant, cafe) and 1 dead/hostile uses (highway). 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 19 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 6 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~249 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
1 distinct amenity types in the park (basketball). Diversity, not raw count, drives the score so a park with many distinct activity types can outrank a larger park that repeats the same use.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~858 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
74 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (12 mid-rise, 62 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 7.9 m (~3 floors); 29.7 buildings per 100 m of 249 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 12 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.
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 (1 types · 2 records)
- basketball
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- retail: I'm A Flower28 m
- retail: Blacktoe Running Inc.41 m
- retail: Convenience Cards & More50 m
- transit stop: Yonge St at Castlefield Ave52 m
- retail: Pure + Simple60 m
- retail65 m
- retail: The Hut - Smoothie And Juice Bar70 m
- transit stop: Castlefield Avenue71 m
- retail: Gamerama Video Games & The Repair Store72 m
- retail: Erbil Barber Shop73 m
- retail: Vape Studio73 m
- cafe: Dang Good Donuts73 m
- cafe: de Mello Palheta74 m
- highway: Yonge Street78 m
- retail: Suetables78 m
- retail: Gina’s Home Linen79 m
- retail: Carload on Yonge79 m
- restaurant: The Right Wing Sports Pub79 m
- retail: Goa Hair Salon80 m
- retail: Ollie Quinn80 m
- cafe: La Bohème Café Patisserie81 m
- retail: The Curated Market Co.82 m
- restaurant: Spotato84 m
- retail: Jalouse Hair84 m
- retail: Wine Rack84 m
- retail: Rebe77e85 m
- retail: Open Court87 m
- retail: Our Wellness88 m
- restaurant: good bite Restaurant89 m
- retail: Mon Luxe Nails & Beauty Bar90 m
- retail: Needle & Thread91 m
- restaurant: Kibo Sushi + Izakaya92 m
- retail: Money Mart93 m
- retail: Keewatin Fine Orthopaedic Footwear95 m
- retail: Formula Fig95 m
- retail: Castlefield Hair Studio100 m
- highway: Yonge Street102 m
- retail: Healthy Planet102 m
- parking lot105 m
- restaurant: Ariete e Toro106 m
- parking lot114 m
- restaurant: Melani - Modern Greek115 m
- parking lot121 m
- retail: Walking On A Cloud124 m
- retail: Tutunjian Jewelry126 m
- highway: Yonge Street127 m
- retail: Blue Diamond Jewellers127 m
- retail: The Men's Chair Barber128 m
- retail: Shervin Mr. Fade129 m
- restaurant: Sorn Thai Restaurant131 m
- restaurant: Louie’s Classico Pizza131 m
- transit stop: Sherwood Avenue132 m
- retail: Elixir 1 Skincare Clinic132 m
- cafe: Himalayan Coffee House133 m
- retail: Best Fresh Buy Market133 m
- retail: Clara's Dry Cleaners Clothing Alterations & Repairs133 m
- retail: Amata Massage Studio134 m
- retail: Coco Market135 m
- retail: Green Valley Products135 m
- retail: Lululemon138 m
- retail: Novus Optical140 m
- parking lot: Impark141 m
- restaurant: Osmow's144 m
- retail: Touch Massage Bar145 m
- parking lot145 m
- restaurant: Impact Kitchen151 m
- retail: Bready155 m
- highway: Yonge Street159 m
- restaurant: Twilight Cafe162 m
- restaurant: Sushi Rock166 m
- retail: Kasali Hair Studio166 m
- retail: Popeye's Supplements169 m
- transit stop: Briar Hill Avenue170 m
- restaurant: Sushi Shop172 m
- retail: Little Party Shoppe175 m
- restaurant: Haida Sandwich177 m
- restaurant: Craft Smokehouse182 m
- restaurant: Benny’s Barbeque182 m
- retail: Pinto Cash For Gold And Jewellery Buyers184 m
- retail: The Clinica184 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality97th
- Edge activation100th
- Connectivity65th
- Amenity diversity60th
- Natural comfort5th
- Enclosure91th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Graham ParkUrban Plaza56
- St. Mary Street ParketteUrban Plaza55
- Pape Avenue CemeteryUrban Plaza53
- Wembley ParketteUrban Plaza54
- Montclair Avenue ParketteUrban Plaza54
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
- Rouge ParkRavine / 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?
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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.
- 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.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data: Green SpacesPolygon boundaries, official names, land classes. 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.