Pearen Park
Neighbourhood Park, above average overall (score 43, rank ~79th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: enclosure.
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Pearen Park scores 42.6 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: edge activation (14.5). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (60). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 1.25 ha
What's here
Getting around
274 m of mapped path, 100% paved.
No steps mapped on the path network.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 95 m away. None of the 5 nearby lots records whether it has accessible spaces.
Path, seating and parking data comes from OpenStreetMap and reflects what volunteers have mapped, not a survey. Absence here means nobody has recorded it. This section does not assess wheelchair access: the relevant OpenStreetMap tag is present on well under 1% of Toronto paths.
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 68%
Data confidence: moderate
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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The parks map is loading.Explain this score
Where did the 43 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
Pearen Park works because its connectivity score (68) is in the top tier and its amenity diversity (27) is also top quartile (12 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 9 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).
What limits this park
Pearen Park's edges are fronted by border-vacuum land uses (highways, rail, parking, blank institutional), risk score 60.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (68, top quartile).
Jacobs reading
Pearen Park 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 (70) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 15): frame without animation.
- High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (60): much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.
Typology classification
Classified as Neighbourhood Park: 1.3 ha, framed by 2 mid-rise vs 2 towers
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 10 active uses (restaurant, retail, cafe, transit_stop) and 6 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: OpenStreetMap: cafes, restaurants, shops, schools, community centres, transit, parking, highways, rail. All data sources.
Connectivity
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 4 mapped paths/walkways and 17 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 9 street intersections within 100 m; 1 subway or GO station, 11 bus stops within a 400 m walk; 5 estimated access points across ~569 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. All data sources.
Amenity Diversity
3 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, sports_field, drinking_water). Diversity 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. All data sources.
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: ~17.3% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); 15.9% inside the ravine system; nearest waterbody ~249 m; 31 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (24.7/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: ravine, 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. All data sources.
Enclosure / Eyes on Park
94 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (2 mid-rise, 90 low-rise, 2 tower); avg edge height 7.0 m (~2 floors); 16.5 buildings per 100 m of 569 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); 2 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 2 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights). All data sources.
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue 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: OpenStreetMap: highways, rail, parking. All data sources.
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: Not loaded yet: Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles. All data sources.
Amenities (3 types · 6 records)
- playground
- sports field
- drinking water
Nearby active-edge features (64)
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West32 m
- transit stop: 3574 Eglinton Avenue West36 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West44 m
- transit stop: Opposite 3574 Eglinton Avenue West51 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West56 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West58 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West85 m
- retail: Erica Fresh Meat African Market & Beauty Supply93 m
- restaurant: York Burger94 m
- restaurant: Domino's95 m
- parking lot95 m
- retail: Da Vince Nails Spa96 m
- retail96 m
- retail97 m
- retail: Print Three97 m
- cafe: Bap Bubble Tea98 m
- transit stop: Weston Rd at Oxford Dr101 m
- retail: M&M Variety & Grocery101 m
- retail: Inkredible Tattoos101 m
- restaurant: Calabar Grill104 m
- retail: Nate Beauty & Co.107 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West115 m
- transit stop: Oxford Drive117 m
- retail: A&M Lifestyle Variety117 m
- retail: CPV Unisex Tailoring117 m
- retail: Lounge118 m
- retail: Digicel118 m
- retail: Carolina Beauty Center118 m
- retail: Joe's Clip Away119 m
- restaurant: Weston Pizza & Wings119 m
- restaurant: Al's Shawarma120 m
- restaurant: V's Caribbean Restaurant120 m
- retail: Express Wash Laundromat121 m
- restaurant: 20 Doner Bar-Grill122 m
- retail: Henry Convenience122 m
- retail: Go Tec123 m
- retail: The Pot Spot123 m
- retail: My Mama's Closet123 m
- retail: FCE Future Communication Enterprise123 m
- retail: The New Millenium124 m
- restaurant: Meechies BBQ & Jerk126 m
- retail126 m
- retail: Ali Barber Salon129 m
- restaurant: 244 Pizza & Wings133 m
- retail: Abeni African Food Inc.135 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West135 m
- retail: Tennis Club137 m
- restaurant: K&A Caribbean Restaurant139 m
- restaurant: First Class Delites149 m
- parking lot150 m
- transit stop: Weston Rd at Eglinton Ave W153 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West155 m
- transit stop: Ray Avenue158 m
- parking lot160 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West161 m
- restaurant: Pos Bueno Mexican Restaurant162 m
- transit stop: Weston Road165 m
- transit stop: Weston Rd at Ray Ave169 m
- parking lot175 m
- retail: Fabian Tools177 m
- restaurant: The Suya Spot182 m
- parking lot189 m
- highway: Eglinton Avenue West191 m
- cafe: Supercoffee195 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality79th
- Edge activation73th
- Connectivity88th
- Amenity diversity78th
- Natural comfort78th
- Enclosure71th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Harryetta GardensRavine / Naturalized Park52
- Kirkwood ParkAthletic / Recreation Park42
- James Trimbee ParkUrban Plaza47
- Stonehouse ParkNeighbourhood Park48
- Fairfield ParkNeighbourhood Park51
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Arnell PlazaCivic Square50
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park18
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park21
- Trca Lands ( 58)Ravine / Naturalized Park18
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
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: Green SpacesPolygon boundaries, official names, land classes. 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.
- OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.