Ed And Anne Mirvish Parkette
Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 48, rank ~91th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial, City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Ed And Anne Mirvish Parkette scores 48.1 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and edge activation. Weakest: amenity diversity (11.9). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.11 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 65%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Explain this score
Where did the 48 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
Ed And Anne Mirvish Parkette works because its edge activation score (57) is one of the city's strongest and its enclosure (90) is also top decile (its perimeter is lined with active uses).
What limits this park
Ed And Anne Mirvish Parkette is held back by natural comfort (23, bottom quartile): only 0% canopy means little summer shade.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low natural comfort (23, bottom quartile).
Jacobs reading
Ed And Anne Mirvish Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+10 vs the median in pocket Urban Plaza).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 1107 m², paved (0% canopy), 42.3 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 16 active uses (transit_stop, retail, restaurant) and 2 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 0 mapped paths/walkways and 4 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 8 street intersections within 100 m; 17 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~147 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
1 distinct amenity types in the park (garden). 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: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~1340 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies. 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
62 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (19 mid-rise, 43 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 8.5 m (~3 floors); 42.3 buildings per 100 m of 147 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 19 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 (1 types · 1 records)
- garden
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- transit stop: Bathurst Station3 m
- transit stop13 m
- restaurant: PreGame26 m
- restaurant: Smart & Morris Jamaican Takeout27 m
- retail: Lloyd's Barber Shop28 m
- retail: World Wide Cosmetic Centre32 m
- transit stop: Bathurst Station34 m
- retail38 m
- retail: Simcoe39 m
- transit stop: Bathurst Street43 m
- retail: Spanish Book Store52 m
- transit stop: Bathurst52 m
- transit stop52 m
- transit stop: Bathurst57 m
- retail: Nella Cucina62 m
- parking lot65 m
- parking lot69 m
- restaurant: CODA100 m
- cafe: Jjin Toast102 m
- restaurant: The Fry116 m
- restaurant: The Jerk King117 m
- restaurant: Pizza Pizza118 m
- restaurant: Tonkatsu118 m
- transit stop: Markham Street118 m
- retail: Secrets From Your Sister120 m
- retail: Dollarama120 m
- transit stop121 m
- restaurant: Pizzeria Forno121 m
- retail: Price War124 m
- retail126 m
- highway: Bloor Street West129 m
- highway: Bloor Street West129 m
- highway: Bloor Street West130 m
- retail130 m
- retail133 m
- restaurant: A&W134 m
- restaurant: Pizzaville134 m
- highway: Bloor Street West135 m
- retail: Qi Natural137 m
- retail: Value Buds137 m
- retail: Canadian Centre For Language And Cultural Studies138 m
- restaurant: Fancy Induced Burger142 m
- retail: Vape World143 m
- parking lot144 m
- restaurant: Insomnia145 m
- retail146 m
- restaurant: Big Way Hot Pot146 m
- parking lot147 m
- retail: Stanley's Variety and Grocery148 m
- transit stop: Barton Avenue148 m
- retail: Drop the Ink149 m
- parking lot149 m
- retail: Midoco Art & Office Supplies151 m
- retail: Nadege152 m
- retail: Village Market152 m
- retail: FORTE Massage Therapy153 m
- restaurant: Shelby's154 m
- retail155 m
- parking lot155 m
- highway: Bloor Street West156 m
- restaurant: George's Deli & B.B.Q.156 m
- restaurant: Kibo Sushi157 m
- restaurant: Top Gun Burger158 m
- restaurant: Paupers Pub159 m
- restaurant: Aki Donburi161 m
- retail: Waxbar Fuzz161 m
- restaurant: Tenon Vegan Sushi165 m
- retail: The Barber Shop167 m
- retail: LCBO168 m
- restaurant: Japan Sushi168 m
- restaurant: Arisu171 m
- transit stop: Barton Avenue171 m
- retail: Repair and Run173 m
- parking lot174 m
- restaurant: Panago176 m
- restaurant: Kimchi House178 m
- retail: Alternative Arts179 m
- retail: Mr. Mart180 m
- retail: XBow Barbers Lounge182 m
- retail: Aroma Waxing Clinic183 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality91th
- Edge activation97th
- Connectivity51th
- Amenity diversity59th
- Natural comfort1th
- Enclosure96th
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Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
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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.
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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.
- Add or open more entrances and improve sidewalk continuity around the park. More permeability means more spontaneous use.
- 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. 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.