City Wide Open Space
Other, near the bottom of the city overall (score 19, rank ~2th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
City Wide Open Space scores 18.9 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 1.38 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 56%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 19 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
What limits this park
Most distinctive characteristic
Jacobs reading
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (52) significantly outpaces natural comfort (26) — well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
Performance in context
- Reads as a modest underperformer relative to comparable parks (gap -9; cohort: medium Other).
Typology classification
Classified as Other: does not meet any specific typology threshold (1.4 ha, 0 amenity types, frontage 1.1/100m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 10 active uses (transit_stop) and 19 dead/hostile uses (rail, parking_lot, highway). 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 6 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 10 street intersections within 100 m; 42 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~564 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 ~340 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
6 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (0 mid-rise, 5 low-rise, 1 tower); avg edge height 16.1 m (~5 floors); 1.1 buildings per 100 m of 564 m perimeter — thin frontage — significant blank-edge share; edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3–7 floors); 1 tower ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 0 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Bloor-Danforth Line, Bloor-Danforth Line, Galt Subdivision, rail, Kipling East Pick-Up & Drop-Off, Bloor-Danforth Line, Dundas Street West, Bloor-Danforth Line, Dundas Street West, Galt Subdivision, Dundas Street West. 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
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 (50)
- parking lot — Kipling East Pick-Up & Drop-Off0 m
- transit stop1 m
- rail7 m
- transit stop9 m
- transit stop — St Albans / Kipling10 m
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line11 m
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line12 m
- transit stop — West Service Road13 m
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line17 m
- rail — Bloor-Danforth Line24 m
- transit stop — West Service Road33 m
- rail — Galt Subdivision35 m
- highway — Dundas Street West37 m
- highway — Dundas Street West40 m
- rail — Galt Subdivision44 m
- highway — Dundas Street West50 m
- highway — Dundas Street West55 m
- parking lot58 m
- rail59 m
- rail60 m
- transit stop — St Albans Road61 m
- highway — Dundas Street West63 m
- transit stop — Dundas St W at Kipling Ave65 m
- transit stop — St Albans Road67 m
- highway — Dundas Street West71 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station72 m
- parking lot — TTC Parking - Kipling South Lot89 m
- rail — Galt Subdivision93 m
- transit stop — Dundas St W at Kipling Ave94 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station100 m
- highway — Dundas Street West109 m
- rail111 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station122 m
- highway — Dundas Street West124 m
- highway — Dundas Street West124 m
- parking lot128 m
- highway — Dundas Street West129 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station135 m
- parking lot135 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station151 m
- parking lot153 m
- parking lot160 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station173 m
- retail — Gateway Market Shops174 m
- highway — Dundas Street West182 m
- parking lot188 m
- transit stop — Kipling Station189 m
- parking lot193 m
- highway — Dundas Street West195 m
- parking lot197 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality2th
- Edge activation16th
- Connectivity59th
- Amenity diversity24th
- Natural comfort9th
- Enclosure11th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- North York Hydro Green SpaceCorridor / Linear Park20
- City Wide Open SpaceOther19
- City Wide Open SpaceTower-Community Green Space19
- City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park19
- City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park19
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- Market Lane ParkUrban Plaza63
- Sir Winston Churchill ParkRavine / Naturalized Park69
- Ryerson Community ParkUrban Plaza60
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.
- Encourage mid-rise, windowed frontages around the park so residents have direct sightlines onto it.
- 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 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.