Urban Plazacluster ·Active-edged · exposed parksBlake-Jones (69)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

Jones Avenue Cemetery

Urban Plaza, above average overall (score 39, rank ~71th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: connectivity.

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

Jones Avenue Cemetery scores 39 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and natural comfort. 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.

Best for:daily passing-throughpocket meetings

Area · 0.45 ha

Vitality Score

39/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 54%

Data Confidence

39.0 / 100

Citywide

71st

of all 3,273 parks

Among Urban Plaza

60th

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in small Urban Plaza (n=100)

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 39 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

Amenity Diversity0 · p55

-10.0

Edge Activation25 · p85

-6.2

Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)

+5.0

Enclosure / Eyes on Park79 · p82

+2.9

Connectivity36 · p29

-2.7

Natural Comfort50 · p60

+0.0

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

Jones Avenue Cemetery works because its edge activation score (25) is in the top tier and its enclosure (79) is also top quartile.

What limits this park

Jones Avenue Cemetery is held back by connectivity (36, below-average).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high edge activation (25, top quartile).

Jacobs reading

Jones Avenue Cemetery sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Typology classification

confidence 70%

Urban Plaza

Classified as Urban Plaza: 4473 m², paved (0% canopy), 25.8 buildings/100 m

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

25.3 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 3 active uses (transit_stop) and 1 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

20% weightmeasured 85%

36.4 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 1 mapped paths/walkways and 1 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 10 street intersections within 100 m; 12 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~298 m of perimeter. low edge density — significant superblock penalty applied. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m1

Intersections within 100 m10

Paths/walkways (50 m)1

Sidewalk segments (50 m)1

Transit stops (400 m)12

Estimated entrances0

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter0.34

Park perimeter298 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightinferred 30%

0.0 / 100

No amenities recorded — score is 0 until inventory is loaded.

Source: Toronto Parks & Recreation Facilities + OSM amenity tags

Natural Comfort

15% weightinferred 15%

50.0 / 100

Natural Comfort requires inputs not yet loaded for this park (Treed Area / Ravine / Waterbodies / Street Trees). Score is held at a neutral 50 with low confidence — read with caution.

Canopy coverage0.0%

Canopy area0.00 ha

Inside ravine system0.0%

Water surface inside park0.0%

Nearest water (if outside park)1,500 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon0

Tree density0.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)0.0

Sample points used30

Source: Treed Area / Ravine / Waterbodies / Street Trees

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

78.6 / 100

77 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (6 mid-rise, 71 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.9 m (~2 floors); 25.8 buildings per 100 m of 298 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 6 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m77

Buildings within 50 m77

Avg edge height6.9 m (~2 floors)

Tallest edge building17.5 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)6

Low-rise (< 3 floors)71

Towers (≥ 13 floors)0

Frontage density25.83 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge8%

Tower share of edge0%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter298 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

0.0 risk

Park edges face the city — no significant border vacuum detected.

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 (0)

No amenities recorded for this park.

Nearby active-edge features (8)

transit stop — Jones Ave at Shundell Ave43 m
parking lot65 m
transit stop — Jones Ave at Baird Ave67 m
transit stop — Jones Ave at Shundell Ave68 m
transit stop — Jones Ave at Strathcona Ave115 m
retail — Ram Upholstery116 m
parking lot187 m
parking lot199 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
71th
Edge activation
85th
Connectivity
29th
Amenity diversity
55th
Natural comfort
60th
Enclosure
82th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Fairchild ParketteUrban Plaza40
Islington Pioneer CemeteryUrban Plaza34
Old Yonge ParketteUrban Plaza41
Riverside Drive ParketteUrban Plaza39
Teddington Park Road Traffic IslandCorridor / Linear Park41

Most opposite parks

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

Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
Sir Casimir Gzowski ParkWaterfront Park33
Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
Toronto Islands - Muggs Island ParkRavine / Naturalized Park25
Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25

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 Jones Avenue Cemeterymatters. 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.

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.
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.

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.