Jean Augustine Park
Other, middle of the pack overall (score 35, rank ~51th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: enclosure.
Photo by Shu Lin via Google Places · cached 5/9/2026
Jean Augustine Park scores 34.6 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and natural comfort. Weakest: edge activation (6). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 1.63 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 68%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Explain this score
Where did the 35 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
Jean Augustine Park works because its connectivity score (71) is in the top tier and its natural comfort (61) is also top quartile (16 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk).
What limits this park
Jean Augustine Park is held back by enclosure (57, below-average); border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (71, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Jean Augustine Park sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100): much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.
Performance in context
- Although its citywide rank is low (51st), it ranks highly among similar others (84th): strong for what it is, even if the absolute score is moderate.
Typology classification
Classified as Other: does not meet any specific typology threshold (1.6 ha, 2 amenity types, frontage 4.7/100m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 14 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, cafe, retail) and 8 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, 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 31 mapped paths/walkways and 27 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 5 street intersections within 100 m; 16 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 14 estimated access points across ~815 m of perimeter. moderate edge density, small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.
Source: Toronto Centreline V2 + Pedestrian Network + OSM transit stops
Amenity Diversity
2 distinct amenity types in the park (bench, drinking_water). 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: ~34.0% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~163 m; 79 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (48.6/ha). Reading: water-cooled. 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
38 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (11 mid-rise, 8 low-rise, 19 tower); avg edge height 34.7 m (~12 floors); 4.7 buildings per 100 m of 815 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges lean tall but still framed; 19 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 11 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, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West. 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 (2 types · 11 records)
- bench
- drinking water
Nearby active-edge features (59)
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West19 m
- retail: Grenadier Convenience20 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West24 m
- transit stop28 m
- parking lot31 m
- transit stop: Marine Parade Dr at Lake Shore Blvd W34 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West47 m
- transit stop: 2111 Lake Shore Boulevard West49 m
- retail: Inspire Vision Care49 m
- restaurant: Vos Restaurante Argentino Steakhouse51 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West52 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West57 m
- retail: Sash + Co69 m
- retail: Platis Cleaners74 m
- restaurant: Eden Trattoria80 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West87 m
- retail: Posh Beauty Studio89 m
- restaurant: Ono Poké Bar89 m
- retail: Sherrry's Nails & Spa92 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West92 m
- cafe: Gravity Pizza Cafe93 m
- retail: Distinguished Gents98 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West101 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway101 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West102 m
- retail: Upper Mgmt125 m
- retail: Rabba Fine Foods126 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West127 m
- transit stop: Marine Parade Drive128 m
- transit stop129 m
- cafe: Pauls Coffee130 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway131 m
- retail: Studio Connect131 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway132 m
- retail: Humber Bay Eyecare133 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway134 m
- retail: Vape 100134 m
- restaurant: Casa Boho135 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway140 m
- retail: Pluto Plants142 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision145 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway145 m
- restaurant: Firkin on the Bay147 m
- rail148 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision149 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision152 m
- retail: Ace of Spades Weed Limited154 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway157 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West158 m
- highway: Gardiner Expressway160 m
- rail160 m
- rail162 m
- cafe: BB Cafe167 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision175 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision179 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision183 m
- rail: Oakville Subdivision187 m
- highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West197 m
- parking lot198 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality51th
- Edge activation65th
- Connectivity93th
- Amenity diversity68th
- Natural comfort78th
- Enclosure30th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- John Tabor ParkNeighbourhood Park41
- Don Mills TrailCorridor / Linear Park33
- City Wide Open SpaceOther32
- Oakdale Golf And Country ClubRavine / Naturalized Park33
- South Humber ParkRavine / Naturalized Park37
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Arnell PlazaCivic Square50
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette73
- Marita Paine ParkOther47
- ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
- Bernard Avenue Road AllowanceUrban Plaza57
Visitor signals
Public attention measured by Google Places aggregates. This proxies attention, not occupancy. Aggregate-only: no usernames, no review text, no extra photos beyond the cached hero.
p26 citywide · p80 within Other
Source: Google Places API · match high (0.94 composite confidence) · last refreshed 5/9/2026. Privacy contract. Measures public attention, not occupancy.
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.
- 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.