Ravine / Naturalized Parkcluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (large-scale)Beechborough-Greenbrook (112)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

Coronation Park - York

Ravine / Naturalized Park, middle of the pack overall (score 38, rank ~66th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: edge activation.

Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026

Coronation Park - York scores 37.6 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.

Best for:escape into nature

Area · 8.60 ha

Vitality Score

38/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence

37.6 / 100

Citywide

66th

of all 3,273 parks

Among Ravine / Naturalized Park

71st

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in large Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine (n=119)

Performance gap

raw − expected · context confidence high

typical

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

Explain this score

Where did the 38 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 · p61

-12.5

Border Vacuum Risk100 (risk)

-5.0

Connectivity73 · p93

+4.5

Amenity Diversity39 · p98

-2.3

Enclosure / Eyes on Park69 · p68

+1.9

Natural Comfort56 · p70

+0.9

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

Coronation Park - York works because its amenity diversity score (39) is one of the city's strongest and its connectivity (73) is also top decile.

What limits this park

Coronation Park - York's edges are fronted by border-vacuum land uses (highways, rail, parking, blank institutional) — risk score 100.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high amenity diversity (39, top decile).

Jacobs reading

Coronation Park - York sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

The park is enclosed by buildings (69) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100) — much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.

Typology classification

confidence 75%

Ravine / Naturalized Parkalso reads as Athletic / Recreation Park

Classified as Ravine / Naturalized Park: 55% ravine overlap, 8% canopy. Secondary read: Athletic / Recreation Park (60% of amenity types are athletic (basketball, sports_field, tennis)).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 8 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant) and 28 dead/hostile uses (rail, 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

20% weightmeasured 85%

72.7 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 11 mapped paths/walkways and 38 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 11 street intersections within 100 m; 26 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 8 estimated access points across ~1,431 m of perimeter. moderate edge density — small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m13

Intersections within 100 m11

Paths/walkways (50 m)11

Sidewalk segments (50 m)38

Transit stops (400 m)26

Estimated entrances8

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.91

Park perimeter1,431 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%

38.6 / 100

5 distinct amenity types in the park (basketball, fitness, playground, sports_field, tennis). 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

15% weightmeasured 75%

56.1 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 8.2% estimated tree canopy; 54.6% inside the ravine system; 0.5% water surface; 96 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (11.2/ha). Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage8.2%

Canopy area0.71 ha

Inside ravine system54.6%

Water surface inside park0.5%

Nearest water (if outside park)0 m (inside)

Estimated green99.5%

City-mapped trees inside polygon96

Tree density11.2 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)67.2

Sample points used194

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

69.4 / 100

74 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (21 mid-rise, 53 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.7 m (~2 floors); 5.2 buildings per 100 m of 1,431 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are low-rise (mostly 2–3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 21 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m74

Buildings within 50 m74

Avg edge height6.7 m (~2 floors)

Tallest edge building19.1 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)21

Low-rise (< 3 floors)53

Towers (≥ 13 floors)0

Frontage density5.17 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge28%

Tower share of edge0%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter1,431 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

100.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, Eglinton Avenue West, parking_lot, Line 5 Eglinton, Line 5 Eglinton, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, parking_lot, 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" — they suppress foot traffic and isolate the park from its neighbourhood.

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 (5 types · 5 records)

basketball
fitness
playground
sports field
tennis

Nearby active-edge features (74)

parking lot0 m
parking lot0 m
parking lot0 m
parking lot0 m
parking lot0 m
transit stop — Eglinton Avenue West at Municipal Drive2 m
rail — Line 5 Eglinton9 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West12 m
parking lot13 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West13 m
rail — Line 5 Eglinton18 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West22 m
transit stop — Eglinton Avenue West at Municipal Drive23 m
retail — Elegant Spa & Studio33 m
retail — Rose Discount Variety37 m
parking lot41 m
restaurant — Dimes Caribbean Restaurant41 m
parking lot43 m
restaurant — Wings Time45 m
parking lot46 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West53 m
retail — York Variety53 m
parking lot53 m
parking lot55 m
retail — Captain's Barber Shop58 m
parking lot60 m
parking lot68 m
parking lot79 m
parking lot80 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West80 m
rail — Line 5 Eglinton81 m
rail — Line 5 Eglinton85 m
parking lot85 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West89 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West94 m
parking lot100 m
transit stop — Trethewey Dr at Greentree Court103 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West108 m
parking lot109 m
highway — Black Creek Drive109 m
restaurant — Triple-Triple Pizza & Chicken111 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West117 m
retail — Fantashia Unisex Salon120 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West120 m
transit stop — Trethewey Dr at Irving Rd122 m
parking lot123 m
transit stop — Clearview Heights126 m
restaurant — Two Brothers Shawarma127 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West132 m
highway — Black Creek Drive133 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West138 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West139 m
highway — Black Creek Drive140 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West142 m
transit stop — Trethewey Dr at Paulson Rd148 m
transit stop — Keele Street148 m
transit stop — Eglinton Avenue West152 m
transit stop — Trethewey Dr at King Georges Dr155 m
parking lot161 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West166 m
transit stop — Paulson Road169 m
parking lot178 m
parking lot180 m
transit stop — Keele St at Eglinton Ave W180 m
transit stop — Keelesdale186 m
transit stop — Keelesdale188 m
parking lot188 m
transit stop — Keelesdale Station189 m
highway — Black Creek Drive189 m
transit stop — Eglinton Ave. W. at Keele Street & Trethewey Drive190 m
retail — Zac's Convenience192 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West194 m
highway — Black Creek Drive196 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West198 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
66th
Edge activation
61th
Connectivity
93th
Amenity diversity
98th
Natural comfort
70th
Enclosure
68th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Cedarvale ParkRavine / Naturalized Park45
Smythe ParkWaterfront Park44
Amesbury ParkAthletic / Recreation Park41
Tom Riley ParkWaterfront Park40
Fairbank Memorial ParkCivic Square44

Most opposite parks

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

Queen'S Quay Traffic IslandWaterfront Park49
Simcoe ParkTower-Community Green Space51
Manor Community GreenUrban Plaza57
Joseph Burr Tyrrell ParkUrban Plaza50
Bernard Avenue Road AllowanceUrban Plaza54

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.
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.