Gwynne Avenue Parkette
Urban Plaza, middle of the pack overall (score 39, rank ~67th percentile). Strongest: enclosure; weakest: amenity diversity.
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Gwynne Avenue Parkette scores 38.8 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is low. This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.06 ha
Getting around
25 m of mapped path. Too little surface tagging to say how much is paved.
Too little path mapped to check for steps.
No seating mapped in OpenStreetMap.
Nearest parking 24 m away. None of the 10 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 57%
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 39 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
Gwynne Avenue Parkette works because its enclosure score (83) is in the top tier and its edge activation (31) is also top quartile (5 mid-rise buildings frame the edge with passive surveillance).
What limits this park
Gwynne Avenue Parkette is held back by amenity diversity (0, bottom quartile).
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high enclosure (83, top quartile).
Jacobs reading
Gwynne Avenue Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 555 m², paved (0% canopy), 43.0 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 22 active uses (retail, restaurant, transit_stop, cafe) and 6 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 9 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 23 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~102 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
No amenities recorded. Score is 0 until inventory is loaded.
Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags
Natural Comfort
Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~1164 m; 1 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (1.0/ha). Reading: exposed. 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
44 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (5 mid-rise, 39 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.9 m (~2 floors); 43.0 buildings per 100 m of 102 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 5 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, 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
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 (0)
No amenities recorded for this park.
Nearby active-edge features (70)
- retail: Clover Flora23 m
- restaurant: Alexander Falafel23 m
- retail: Barton Floor Coverings24 m
- cafe: Rustic Cosmo Café24 m
- parking lot24 m
- restaurant: Motel Bar28 m
- restaurant: Danu Social House32 m
- retail: Dirty Mike's Thrift39 m
- retail: House of Vintage41 m
- parking lot48 m
- retail: Forward Wireless52 m
- restaurant: Rhino58 m
- parking lot60 m
- retail: Parkdale Barbers62 m
- cafe: Bom Dia71 m
- restaurant: Matt's Burger Lab77 m
- transit stop: Dufferin Street78 m
- retail: Queen & Dufferin Convenience82 m
- cafe: My Tea Bar84 m
- retail: Kim Nails & Spa85 m
- retail: Vegan Danish Bakery87 m
- restaurant: Guu Izakaya91 m
- parking lot92 m
- transit stop: Queen Street West93 m
- parking lot97 m
- restaurant: Armonia Pasta Bar97 m
- parking lot98 m
- restaurant: Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine100 m
- retail: Smoke N Fire101 m
- restaurant: Mary Brown's105 m
- restaurant: Nuna105 m
- transit stop: Queen Street West107 m
- parking lot111 m
- retail: Green Pentagon Cannabis112 m
- rail: Galt Subdivision112 m
- transit stop: Dufferin Street116 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision117 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision118 m
- retail: Lynn's Convenience122 m
- retail: Wavy123 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision123 m
- retail: Dang Jewellery & Watches126 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision126 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision127 m
- parking lot128 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision130 m
- restaurant: Kaminari131 m
- restaurant: Craig's Cookies135 m
- retail: Gas City140 m
- parking lot144 m
- retail: Lola145 m
- parking lot146 m
- retail: Matchbox Tattoo148 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision148 m
- retail: Made You Look Jewellery150 m
- retail154 m
- retail: Paper Plus Cloth158 m
- transit stop: Dufferin St at Melbourne Ave160 m
- community: Creating Together EarlyON Child and Family Centre164 m
- rail: Weston Subdivision167 m
- retail: Budget One Stop170 m
- restaurant: Hanoi Restaurant-Cake176 m
- transit stop: Brock Avenue176 m
- cafe: Starbucks177 m
- retail: The Wine Shop178 m
- retail: Mississaugas of the Credit Medicine Wheel185 m
- retail: King West Flowers185 m
- retail: Dollarama190 m
- retail: Metro192 m
- restaurant: BB's200 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality67th
- Edge activation87th
- Connectivity63th
- Amenity diversity16th
- Natural comfort17th
- Enclosure89th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Larratt ParketteRavine / Naturalized Park40
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza40
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza40
- Santa Chiara Parkette - Anne Marie D'Amico SquareCivic Square41
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza41
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space. Useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Trca Lands ( 26)Ravine / Naturalized Park27
- Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park28
- Toronto Islands - Mugg'S IslandRavine / Naturalized Park36
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
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.
- Increase canopy and reduce paved area. Shade and water features extend usable hours and seasons.
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.
- Neighbourhood Profiles(Pending) Equity context proxy.
- OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)Cafés, restaurants, retail, transit stops, parking, highways, rail.