City Wide Open Space
Corridor / Linear Park, middle of the pack overall (score 32, rank ~37th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
City Wide Open Space scores 31.5 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (36). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.40 ha
Getting around
No walking paths mapped in OpenStreetMap.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 4 m away. None of the 22 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 56%
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 32 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
City Wide Open Space works because its connectivity score (67) is in the top tier and its enclosure (81) is also top quartile (32 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 11 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).
What limits this park
City Wide Open Space is held back by natural comfort (25, bottom quartile): only 0% canopy means little summer shade; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (36).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low natural comfort (25, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
City Wide Open Space sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (67) significantly outpaces natural comfort (25): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
- The park is enclosed by buildings (81) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0): frame without animation.
Typology classification
Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 2.5× a circle of equal area
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 4 active uses (retail, transit_stop) and 8 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot). 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 38 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 11 street intersections within 100 m; 32 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~556 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 ~638 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
22 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (13 mid-rise, 9 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 14.7 m (~5 floors); 4.0 buildings per 100 m of 556 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3 to 7 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 13 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, parking_lot. 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 (47)
- parking lot4 m
- transit stop: Cherry Street18 m
- transit stop: Front Street East22 m
- parking lot24 m
- transit stop: Front Street East40 m
- parking lot45 m
- retail: Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Toronto Parking68 m
- parking lot83 m
- parking lot87 m
- parking lot88 m
- parking lot91 m
- parking lot99 m
- parking lot101 m
- parking lot106 m
- parking lot112 m
- parking lot122 m
- parking lot125 m
- parking lot128 m
- parking lot131 m
- retail: Dulux Paints134 m
- retail: Fica Local135 m
- parking lot136 m
- parking lot141 m
- parking lot150 m
- transit stop: Sackville Street150 m
- transit stop: Sackville Street150 m
- parking lot150 m
- retail: Expedia Cruises151 m
- retail: Libby's Custom Framing151 m
- restaurant: Gilead Café + Wine Bar154 m
- restaurant: King Deli-Cafe154 m
- transit stop: Trinity Street158 m
- transit stop: Cherry Street159 m
- retail: Preservation House165 m
- cafe: Morning Glory172 m
- retail172 m
- retail: King & Parliament Dry Cleaning174 m
- retail: Gallery 402176 m
- restaurant: Archeo Trattoria179 m
- restaurant: SpiritHouse Toronto185 m
- retail: Running Room187 m
- restaurant: El Catrin187 m
- transit stop: Sumach Street188 m
- parking lot190 m
- parking lot194 m
- retail: Brick Street Bakery195 m
- retail: Little T Annex Art Gallery199 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality37th
- Edge activation46th
- Connectivity87th
- Amenity diversity43th
- Natural comfort7th
- Enclosure85th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Atria ParkUrban Plaza36
- North York Hydro Green SpaceOther28
- City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park35
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza33
- Resthaven Memorial GardensCivic Square25
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Toronto ZooWaterfront Park67
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park75
- Toronto Islands - Island ParkWaterfront Park57
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Toronto Islands - Centre Island ParkWaterfront Park55
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.
- 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.