Spadina Road Green
Urban Plaza, above average overall (score 40, rank ~74th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Spadina Road Green scores 39.7 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. 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.
Area · 0.13 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 57%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 40 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
What limits this park
Most distinctive characteristic
Jacobs reading
Tradeoffs
- The park is enclosed by buildings (95) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 17) — frame without animation.
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 1300 m², paved (0% canopy), 20.0 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 2 active uses (transit_stop) and 1 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 3 mapped paths/walkways and 11 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 15 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~210 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: ~1.4% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~887 m; 2 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (2.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies, street_trees. 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
42 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (29 mid-rise, 13 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 11.3 m (~4 floors); 20.0 buildings per 100 m of 210 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3–7 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 29 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 (0)
No amenities recorded for this park.
Nearby active-edge features (32)
- transit stop — Spadina Rd at Davenport Rd19 m
- parking lot67 m
- transit stop — Spadina Road87 m
- transit stop — Davenport Rd at Walmer Rd112 m
- rail120 m
- rail — North Toronto Subdivision124 m
- parking lot128 m
- rail — North Toronto Subdivision128 m
- parking lot141 m
- parking lot142 m
- parking lot145 m
- parking lot153 m
- retail — Bruno Men's Hair Stylists154 m
- transit stop — Northwest Entrance176 m
- retail — Modern Laundry & Dry Cleaning177 m
- restaurant — Krispy Kreme179 m
- transit stop — Dupont Street181 m
- retail — D&D Express Mart183 m
- retail — Polish Me Nails and Beauty Bar183 m
- transit stop — Dupont St at Spadina Rd184 m
- transit stop — Dupont184 m
- retail — XC Art Restoration184 m
- restaurant — The Backyard Smokehouse184 m
- transit stop — Dupont185 m
- restaurant — Subway185 m
- parking lot186 m
- retail188 m
- cafe — Wey Cup190 m
- retail — Euphoria Cake and Dessert192 m
- restaurant — Roti Cuisine of India192 m
- retail — Bete Suk193 m
- restaurant — Casa Mezcal197 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality74th
- Edge activation75th
- Connectivity64th
- Amenity diversity23th
- Natural comfort18th
- Enclosure99th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- George Milbrandt ParketteUrban Plaza32
- Belmont ParketteUrban Plaza39
- Edgewood ParketteUrban Plaza39
- Arc ParkUrban Plaza37
- LAMBTON HOUSE - Building GroundsUrban Plaza37
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 ParkWaterfront Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
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 Spadina Road Greenmatters. 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.
Data sources
- City of Toronto Open Data — Parks (Green Space)Polygon boundaries, official names, types.
- 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.