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

Coronation Park - York

Ravine / Naturalized Park, middle of the pack overall (score 37, rank ~60th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: enclosure.

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

Coronation Park - York scores 36.8 / 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 forescape into nature

Area · 8.89 ha

What's here

Recreation
PlaygroundSports fieldTennisBasketballFitness
Facilities
Benches
Vitality Score
37/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
36.8 / 100
Citywide
60th
of all 3,788 parks
Among Ravine / Naturalized Park
63rd
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
37
median in large Ravine / Naturalized Park ravine (n=127)
Performance gap
+0
raw − expected · context confidence high
typical

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

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Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Explain this score

Where did the 37 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 · p52
-12.5
Border Vacuum Risk100 (risk)
-5.0
Connectivity71 · p92
+4.1
Amenity Diversity43 · p94
-1.4
Enclosure / Eyes on Park62 · p49
+1.2
Natural Comfort52 · p68
+0.3

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 (43) is in the top tier and its connectivity (71) is also top decile (6 distinct amenity types support different kinds of use).

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 (43, 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 (62) 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: 76% ravine overlap, 6% canopy. Secondary read: Athletic / Recreation Park (50% of amenity types are athletic (basketball, sports_field, tennis)).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 0 active uses (none) and 36 dead/hostile uses (highway, rail, 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%
70.7 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 11 mapped paths/walkways and 36 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 12 street intersections within 100 m; 29 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 8 estimated access points across ~2,006 m of perimeter. moderate edge density, small superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m14
Intersections within 100 m12
Paths/walkways (50 m)11
Sidewalk segments (50 m)36
Transit stops (400 m)29
Estimated entrances8
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.70
Park perimeter2,006 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
43.2 / 100

6 distinct amenity types in the park (basketball, fitness, playground, sports_field, tennis, bench). 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%
52.3 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 5.7% estimated tree canopy; 75.6% inside the ravine system; 1.6% water surface; 42 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (4.7/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 coverage5.7%
Canopy area0.51 ha
Inside ravine system75.6%
Water surface inside park1.6%
Nearest water (if outside park)0 m (inside)
Estimated green98.4%
City-mapped trees inside polygon42
Tree density4.7 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)53.6
Sample points used123

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
62.0 / 100

58 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (18 mid-rise, 40 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.6 m (~2 floors); 2.9 buildings per 100 m of 2,006 m perimeter (moderate frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 18 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m58
Buildings within 50 m58
Avg edge height6.6 m (~2 floors)
Tallest edge building12.2 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)18
Low-rise (< 3 floors)40
Towers (≥ 13 floors)0
Frontage density2.89 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge31%
Tower share of edge0%
Blank-edge share (proxy)4%
Park perimeter2,006 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: Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Line 5 Eglinton, Line 5 Eglinton, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, parking_lot, parking_lot, parking_lot, Black Creek Drive, Black Creek Drive, Eglinton Avenue West, Line 5 Eglinton, Line 5 Eglinton, 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

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 (6 types · 15 records)

  • basketball
  • fitness
  • playground
  • sports field
  • tennis
  • bench

Nearby active-edge features (80)

  • parking lot0 m
  • parking lot3 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton4 m
  • parking lot9 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton9 m
  • parking lot11 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West13 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West16 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West22 m
  • parking lot24 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West24 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West27 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West30 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive35 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West35 m
  • parking lot37 m
  • parking lot42 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive43 m
  • parking lot43 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton48 m
  • parking lot48 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton49 m
  • parking lot53 m
  • parking lot56 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West59 m
  • parking lot66 m
  • parking lot67 m
  • parking lot69 m
  • parking lot72 m
  • parking lot76 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive79 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive80 m
  • parking lot80 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West84 m
  • parking lot88 m
  • parking lot94 m
  • parking lot101 m
  • parking lot103 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West103 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue West at Municipal Drive104 m
  • parking lot111 m
  • parking lot113 m
  • parking lot114 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West118 m
  • transit stop: Trethewey Dr at Greentree Court119 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton122 m
  • rail: Line 5 Eglinton123 m
  • parking lot124 m
  • transit stop: Trethewey Dr at Paulson Rd125 m
  • parking lot125 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue West at Municipal Drive126 m
  • transit stop: Todd Baylis Boulevard128 m
  • parking lot133 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive135 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West135 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive142 m
  • transit stop: Clearview Heights143 m
  • retail: Elegant Spa & Studio144 m
  • transit stop: Trethewey Dr at King Georges Dr144 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue at Black Creek Drive145 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive149 m
  • retail: Rose Discount Variety150 m
  • transit stop: Trethewey Dr at Irving Rd156 m
  • restaurant: Dimes Caribbean Restaurant158 m
  • transit stop: Paulson Road158 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive163 m
  • restaurant: Wings Time164 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive165 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West166 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West168 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West171 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive171 m
  • retail: York Variety173 m
  • parking lot174 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive176 m
  • retail: Captain's Barber Shop179 m
  • transit stop: Eglinton Avenue West180 m
  • parking lot185 m
  • highway: Black Creek Drive189 m
  • highway: Eglinton Avenue West193 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureCoronation Park - York
Edge activation, connectivity, amenity diversity, natural comfort, and enclosure, each 0 to 100.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

  • Overall vitality
    60th
  • Edge activation
    52th
  • Connectivity
    92th
  • Amenity diversity
    94th
  • Natural comfort
    68th
  • Enclosure
    49th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Most opposite parks

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

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 Coronation Park - Yorkmatters. 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.

Rate this park on as many dimensions as you have an opinion about. 1 = not at all, 5 = strongly. Skip the ones you don't feel sure about. Aggregated only, no comments stored at the row level.

feels socially active
feels comfortable
feels safe
feels connected
feels welcoming
feels ecological / natural
feels good for lingering
feels family-friendly
feels culturally important
70%

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

real Toronto data
  • 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 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.