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Bobbie Rosenfeld Park

Parkette, middle of the pack overall (score 31, rank ~33th percentile). Strongest: natural comfort; weakest: connectivity.

Bobbie Rosenfeld Park scores 30.5 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.

Best fora quiet siteveryday neighbourhood use

Area · 0.13 ha

Vitality Score

31/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 61%

Data Confidence

30.5 / 100

Citywide

33rd

of all 3,788 parks

Among Parkette

35th

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in pocket Parkette (n=296)

Performance gap

-1

raw − expected · context confidence high

typical

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

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Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Explain this score

Where did the 31 come from? Each weighted contribution against a neutral 50 baseline. Green = pushed up; red = pulled down.

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What pushed this score up or down vs a neutral 50weight × score

Edge Activation0 · p62

-12.5

Amenity Diversity0 · p52

-10.0

Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)

+5.0

Connectivity29 · p26

-4.1

Natural Comfort60 · p77

+1.5

Enclosure / Eyes on Park56 · p28

+0.6

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

Bobbie Rosenfeld Park works because its natural comfort score (60) is above average and its edge activation (0) is also above-average.

What limits this park

Bobbie Rosenfeld Park is held back by connectivity (29, below-average).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high natural comfort (60, top quartile).

Jacobs reading

Bobbie Rosenfeld Park is an ecological retreat. The urban-vitality numbers are low because the park exists outside the everyday city. That's the point of it.

Tradeoffs

Natural comfort (60) significantly outpaces connectivity (29): restorative but hard to reach for daily use.

Typology classification

confidence 70%

Parkette

Classified as Parkette: small (1322 m²) with strong building frontage (3.9 per 100 m)

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 11 active uses (restaurant, retail, transit_stop, cafe) and 19 dead/hostile uses (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

20% weightmeasured 85%

29.3 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 5 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 1 street intersections within 100 m; 5 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~230 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m1

Intersections within 100 m1

Paths/walkways (50 m)0

Sidewalk segments (50 m)5

Transit stops (400 m)5

Estimated entrances0

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.43

Park perimeter230 m

Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops

Amenity Diversity

20% weightinferred 30%

0.0 / 100

No amenities recorded. Score is 0 until inventory is loaded.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags

Natural Comfort

15% weightpartial 60%

60.2 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 20.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~375 m; 5 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (5.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: treed_area, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage20.0%

Canopy area0.03 ha

Inside ravine system0.0%

Water surface inside park0.0%

Nearest water (if outside park)375 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon5

Tree density5.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)72.2

Sample points used10

Source: Toronto Treed Area + Ravine + Waterbodies + Street Tree Inventory

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

56.2 / 100

9 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (3 mid-rise, 5 low-rise, 1 tower); avg edge height 56.0 m (~19 floors); 3.9 buildings per 100 m of 230 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges dominated by towers; 1 tower ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 3 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m9

Buildings within 50 m9

Avg edge height56.0 m (~19 floors)

Tallest edge building443.0 m

Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)3

Low-rise (< 3 floors)5

Towers (≥ 13 floors)1

Frontage density3.91 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge33%

Tower share of edge11%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter230 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

0.0 risk

Park edges face the city. No significant border vacuum detected.

Source: Toronto Street Centreline (highways) + rail layer + OSM landuse + building footprints

Equity Context

contextinferred 15%

50.0 / 100

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)

restaurant0 m
restaurant: le Grill5 m
restaurant16 m
retail: Jay's Shop28 m
transit stop34 m
retail: Ripley's Cargo Hold Gift Shop59 m
restaurant: 360 Restaurant59 m
rail66 m
rail68 m
retail: CN Tower69 m
restaurant: The Rec Room74 m
cafe: Ripley's Café77 m
rail86 m
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retail: Rogers88 m
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rail: Union Station Rail Corridor92 m
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rail136 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge activation, connectivity, amenity diversity, natural comfort, and enclosure, each 0 to 100.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
33th
Edge activation
62th
Connectivity
26th
Amenity diversity
52th
Natural comfort
77th
Enclosure
28th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

City Wide Open SpaceNeighbourhood Park24
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City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park22
City Wide Open SpaceParkette30

Most opposite parks

Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.

Leslie Grove ParkParkette73
Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park75
Bellevue Square ParkCivic Square73
ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza67

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.

Activate the edges: encourage cafés, retail or community uses on the streets that face the park; replace blank or parking-lot edges where possible.
Add or open more entrances and improve sidewalk continuity around the park. More permeability means more spontaneous use.
Diversify what people can do in the park (playground, washroom, water, shade, performance, sport, garden): even small additions raise this score.

Data sources

real Toronto data

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 Facilities
Inventory of in-park amenities (washrooms, fields, rinks…).
Toronto Pedestrian Network
Sidewalk segments around and through parks; estimated park entrances.
Toronto Centreline V2
Street segments + intersection nodes near park edges; trails and walkways.
Toronto 3D Massing
Building footprints + heights for edge-building counts, frontage density, and tower-in-the-park risk.
Toronto Treed Area
Tree canopy share inside park polygons via stratified-grid sampling.
Toronto Waterbodies & Rivers
Water surface inside parks + nearest-water distance for cooling.
Ravine & Natural Feature Protection
Ravine overlap as a cooling / natural-comfort signal.
Toronto Street Tree Inventory
Tree count + density inside park polygons.
Neighbourhood Profiles
(Pending) Equity context proxy.
OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.