John C. Price Park
Other, near the bottom of the city overall (score 21, rank ~4th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: connectivity.
John C. Price Park scores 20.8 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (72). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 3.43 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 49%
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 21 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
John C. Price Park works because its amenity diversity score (12) is middle of the pack and its natural comfort (50) is also above-average.
What limits this park
John C. Price Park is held back by connectivity (16, bottom quartile); border-vacuum risk is also elevated (72).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low connectivity (16, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
John C. Price Park is currently underperforming on both axes: neither integrated into the city nor offering deep natural respite. A candidate for design intervention.
Tradeoffs
- Natural comfort (50) significantly outpaces connectivity (16): restorative but hard to reach for daily use.
Performance in context
- Reads as a modest underperformer relative to comparable parks (gap -9; cohort: medium Other).
Typology classification
Classified as Other: does not meet any specific typology threshold (3.4 ha, 1 amenity types, frontage 0.0/100m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 17 active uses (retail, restaurant, transit_stop) and 18 dead/hostile uses (highway, 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 0 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 0 street intersections within 100 m; 17 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~837 m of perimeter. low edge density, significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops
Amenity Diversity
1 distinct amenity types in the park (playground). 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 requires inputs not yet loaded for this park (Treed Area / Ravine / Waterbodies / Street Trees). Score is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence. Read with caution.
Source: Treed Area / Ravine / Waterbodies / Street Trees
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
No buildings within 50 m of this park edge, typical of ravines, watercourses, and hydro corridors. Enclosure is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence; for natural areas, this metric is essentially not applicable.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (no nearby buildings detected)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, parking_lot, 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 (1 types · 1 records)
- playground
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- parking lot1 m
- parking lot6 m
- restaurant: Korner Kitchens22 m
- retail: Service Centre24 m
- parking lot25 m
- parking lot35 m
- transit stop: Dundas Street At Little John Lane41 m
- retail: Dollarama41 m
- parking lot43 m
- restaurant: Cooksville Fish & Chips44 m
- retail: P&J Hairstyling48 m
- parking lot50 m
- parking lot52 m
- retail: L&L Discount53 m
- highway: Dundas Street East54 m
- highway: Dundas Street East57 m
- highway: Dundas Street East58 m
- parking lot59 m
- restaurant: Wow! - 천하일59 m
- transit stop: Dundas Street At Camilla Road64 m
- retail: 개미 미용실64 m
- parking lot65 m
- highway: Dundas Street East66 m
- retail: Ur Cell67 m
- retail73 m
- retail: Asia Bakery73 m
- retail: Al-Basir Halal Meat & Grocery73 m
- highway: Dundas Street East75 m
- highway: Dundas Street East76 m
- highway: Dundas Street East83 m
- transit stop: Dundas Street At Jaguar Valley Drive85 m
- highway: Dundas Street East89 m
- retail: Woori Meat Shop90 m
- parking lot92 m
- transit stop: Dundas Street At Jaguar Valley96 m
- retail: Salon Paradise103 m
- highway: Dundas Street East104 m
- parking lot104 m
- parking lot106 m
- restaurant: Mr. Sub108 m
- retail: Adult Super Video114 m
- parking lot117 m
- parking lot118 m
- retail: Cupid Boutique120 m
- highway: Dundas Street East120 m
- parking lot122 m
- parking lot124 m
- retail: Panchvati125 m
- parking lot125 m
- retail: New Kaveri Supermarket130 m
- highway: Dundas Street East131 m
- parking lot133 m
- parking lot133 m
- highway: Dundas Street East133 m
- restaurant: K-Pocha136 m
- parking lot137 m
- parking lot138 m
- parking lot140 m
- restaurant: Snowies Bingsu140 m
- parking lot141 m
- restaurant: Phở Đô Thị150 m
- retail: Money Mart155 m
- retail: Shear Cut156 m
- parking lot157 m
- parking lot158 m
- parking lot161 m
- restaurant: Potluck Caribbean Cuisine163 m
- retail: Family Barbers167 m
- retail: Star Gift167 m
- restaurant: Burrito Boyz169 m
- retail170 m
- restaurant: Nawab’s Indian Cuisine171 m
- parking lot171 m
- retail: Safety Station172 m
- highway: Dundas Street East172 m
- retail: India Town Food Centre173 m
- parking lot175 m
- retail: Ikyaa Jewellery176 m
- highway: Dundas Street East176 m
- parking lot177 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality4th
- Edge activation60th
- Connectivity12th
- Amenity diversity65th
- Natural comfort62th
- Enclosure21th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Spruce Ave ParkOther27
- Middleton ParkOther28
- Crieff ParketteOther28
- Sylvan Brook ParketteOther27
- Westview ParketteOther28
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?
Your read of John C. Price Parkmatters. 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.
- 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.
- 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.