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City Wide Open Space

Urban Plaza, above average overall (score 40, rank ~76th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.

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

City Wide Open Space scores 40.1 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (36). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.

Best for:daily passing-throughpocket meetings

Area · 0.04 ha

Vitality Score

40/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 56%

Data Confidence

40.1 / 100

Citywide

76th

of all 3,273 parks

Among Urban Plaza

67th

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in pocket Urban Plaza (n=337)

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 40 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 · p19

-10.0

Natural Comfort23 · p1

-4.1

Enclosure / Eyes on Park84 · p89

+3.4

Border Vacuum Risk36 (risk)

+1.4

Edge Activation45 · p94

-1.3

Connectivity54 · p61

+0.7

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

City Wide Open Space works because its edge activation score (45) is in the top tier and its enclosure (84) is also top quartile.

What limits this park

City Wide Open Space is held back by natural comfort (23, bottom quartile)— only 0% canopy means little summer shade; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (36).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low natural comfort (23, bottom quartile).

Jacobs reading

City Wide Open Space sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

Connectivity (54) significantly outpaces natural comfort (23) — well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.

Typology classification

confidence 70%

Urban Plaza

Classified as Urban Plaza: 413 m², paved (0% canopy), 26.0 buildings/100 m

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

44.9 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 20 active uses (retail, restaurant, transit_stop, cafe) and 4 dead/hostile uses (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%

53.5 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 11 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 7 street intersections within 100 m; 20 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~95 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy — no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m3

Intersections within 100 m7

Paths/walkways (50 m)0

Sidewalk segments (50 m)11

Transit stops (400 m)20

Estimated entrances0

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter3.00

Park perimeter95 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 24%

22.7 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~1267 m. Reading: exposed. Source coverage: waterbodies. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage0.0%

Canopy area0.00 ha

Inside ravine system0.0%

Water surface inside park0.0%

Nearest water (if outside park)1,267 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon0

Tree density0.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)0.0

Sample points used11

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

83.8 / 100

26 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (5 mid-rise, 21 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 7.4 m (~2 floors); 26.0 buildings per 100 m of 95 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 5 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m26

Buildings within 50 m26

Avg edge height7.4 m (~2 floors)

Tallest edge building10.7 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)5

Low-rise (< 3 floors)21

Towers (≥ 13 floors)0

Frontage density26.00 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge19%

Tower share of edge0%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter95 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

36.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: North Toronto Subdivision, North Toronto Subdivision. Jacobs warned that highways, rail, parking lots and blank institutional edges act as "vacuums" — they 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 (0)

No amenities recorded for this park.

Nearby active-edge features (51)

rail — North Toronto Subdivision26 m
rail — North Toronto Subdivision27 m
parking lot53 m
parking lot59 m
cafe — Tim Hortons64 m
retail — Circle K67 m
retail — South Hill Home72 m
restaurant — Chilliy Pepper Tacos75 m
restaurant — Martino Pizza & Asian Kitchen79 m
transit stop — Dupont St at Davenport Road84 m
restaurant — Stella's Kitchen86 m
transit stop — Dupont St at Davenport Road87 m
retail — Mirror by La Vita87 m
retail — High Clip Barbershop90 m
cafe — Haute Coffee91 m
retail — Dear My Puppy91 m
retail91 m
retail — Unique Nails92 m
retail92 m
retail — Wise Nadel Design94 m
retail — Global Pet Foods95 m
retail — New Forest Market96 m
retail — Black & White Barber Shop97 m
retail — Puedmag Inkpire98 m
retail — Boston Eco Cleaner105 m
retail — Ann's Coin Laundry106 m
parking lot107 m
retail — Davenport Leaf109 m
retail — Davenport Garden Center109 m
retail — Davenport Custom Tailors109 m
parking lot112 m
retail115 m
parking lot116 m
retail — Gaby's Groceries118 m
retail — Hopson Grace123 m
parking lot125 m
parking lot132 m
retail — The Rose Emporium132 m
retail — Lori Morris Design135 m
rail — North Toronto Subdivision137 m
rail — North Toronto Subdivision138 m
retail — Value Buds139 m
transit stop — Dupont Street140 m
rail157 m
parking lot166 m
restaurant — Playa Cabana167 m
parking lot168 m
transit stop — Dupont St at Huron St171 m
transit stop — Dupont St at Huron St182 m
parking lot189 m
transit stop — Dupont St at Bedford Rd195 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
76th
Edge activation
94th
Connectivity
61th
Amenity diversity
19th
Natural comfort
1th
Enclosure
89th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Dane ParketteUrban Plaza42
QUEEN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH GROUNDS - Building GroundsUrban Plaza44
Leavenworth ParketteUrban Plaza43
City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza38
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
Rouge ParkWaterfront Park25
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?

Your read of City Wide Open Spacematters. 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.
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.
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 — 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.