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Coronation Park - Toronto

Destination Park, middle of the pack overall (score 37, rank ~62th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: enclosure.

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

Coronation Park - Toronto scores 37.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: connectivity and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: edge activation (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (100). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.

Best forweekend outingsdiverse activities in one place

Area · 10.68 ha

What's here

Recreation
Sports fieldOff-leash dog areaGarden
Facilities
WashroomDrinking waterPicnic areaBenchesCommunity centre
Vitality Score
37/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 72%

Data Confidence
37.3 / 100
Citywide
62nd
of all 3,788 parks
Among Destination Park
25th
same primary typology
Expected for similar parks
34
median in all Toronto parks (n=3788)
Performance gap
+3
raw − expected · context confidence low
typical

Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.

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Street context. Park polygon highlighted on the citywide map.

Boundary: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Explain this score

Where did the 37 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
Edge Activation0 · p26
-12.5
Connectivity78 · p98
+5.7
Border Vacuum Risk100 (risk)
-5.0
Natural Comfort40 · p36
-1.4
Enclosure / Eyes on Park54 · p25
+0.4
Amenity Diversity51 · p98
+0.2

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

Coronation Park - Toronto works because its connectivity score (78) is one of the city's strongest and its amenity diversity (51) is also top decile (23 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 17 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).

What limits this park

Coronation Park - Toronto is held back by enclosure (54, bottom quartile); border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (78, top decile).

Jacobs reading

Coronation Park - Toronto sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

  • Connectivity (78) significantly outpaces natural comfort (40): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
  • 31 nearby towers cast wind and shadow without contributing canopy: passive surveillance is plentiful but human-scale comfort is not.
  • High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100): much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.

Performance in context

  • Citywide rank is high (62nd) but typology rank is more modest (25th): the strength likely comes from the dataset average pulling lower than this typology’s baseline.
  • Cohort is small (3788 parks). The gap shown here should be read with caution.

Typology classification

confidence 65%
Destination Park

Classified as Destination Park: 11 ha, 8 amenity types, connectivity 78 / comfort 40

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%
0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 9 active uses (cafe, retail, transit_stop) and 24 dead/hostile uses (highway, 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%
78.4 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 32 mapped paths/walkways and 41 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 17 street intersections within 100 m; 23 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 13 estimated access points across ~1,427 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy, no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m16
Intersections within 100 m17
Paths/walkways (50 m)32
Sidewalk segments (50 m)41
Transit stops (400 m)23
Estimated entrances13
Edge connections / 100 m perimeter1.12
Park perimeter1,427 m

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

Amenity Diversity

20% weightmeasured 75%
50.8 / 100

8 distinct amenity types in the park (dog_area, picnic, sports_field, washroom, bench, community_centre, …). 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

15% weightmeasured 75%
40.4 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: ~4.1% effective canopy (0.7% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); nearest waterbody ~133 m; 62 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (5.8/ha). Reading: water-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, waterbodies, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage0.7%
Canopy area0.08 ha
Inside ravine system0.0%
Water surface inside park0.0%
Nearest water (if outside park)133 m
Estimated green100.0%
City-mapped trees inside polygon62
Tree density5.8 / ha
Cover diversity (Shannon, 0 to 100)6.0
Sample points used284

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%
53.7 / 100

66 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (25 mid-rise, 10 low-rise, 31 tower); avg edge height 52.5 m (~18 floors); 4.6 buildings per 100 m of 1,427 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges dominated by towers; 31 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 25 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m66
Buildings within 50 m66
Avg edge height52.5 m (~18 floors)
Tallest edge building120.4 m
Mid-rise (3 to 7 floors)25
Low-rise (< 3 floors)10
Towers (≥ 13 floors)31
Frontage density4.63 per 100 m perimeter
Mid-rise share of edge38%
Tower share of edge47%
Blank-edge share (proxy)0%
Park perimeter1,427 m

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

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%
100.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: parking_lot, parking_lot, parking_lot, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Lake Shore Boulevard West. 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

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 (8 types · 55 records)

  • dog area
  • picnic
  • sports field
  • washroom
  • bench
  • community centre
  • drinking water
  • garden

Nearby active-edge features (51)

  • parking lot0 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West9 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West12 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West13 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West13 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West14 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West18 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West18 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West19 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West20 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West20 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West21 m
  • parking lot24 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West25 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West28 m
  • transit stop: Bastion Street33 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West36 m
  • transit stop: Bastion Street40 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West41 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West44 m
  • transit stop: Strachan Avenue47 m
  • parking lot49 m
  • parking lot54 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West57 m
  • retail: Classy Dry Cleaners58 m
  • retail: Navs Grocery58 m
  • retail: Mr & Mrs Dry Cleaners70 m
  • cafe: Parisco Cafe74 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West77 m
  • parking lot: Lot 85978 m
  • retail: Parisco Market80 m
  • transit stop: Fort York Boulevard98 m
  • parking lot99 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West101 m
  • restaurant: Fort York Pizzeria108 m
  • transit stop110 m
  • transit stop117 m
  • retail: TD Canada Trust120 m
  • transit stop: Fleet Hub123 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West127 m
  • transit stop: Fleet Hub134 m
  • transit stop: Fleet Street137 m
  • transit stop: Princes' Gates Loop159 m
  • transit stop: Canada Blvd at Princes' Blvd166 m
  • parking lot168 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West169 m
  • highway: Lake Shore Boulevard West169 m
  • parking lot177 m
  • parking lot184 m
  • parking lot188 m
  • retail: Floral & Decor189 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Edge ActivationConnectivityAmenity DiversityNatural ComfortEnclosureCoronation Park - Toronto
Edge activation, connectivity, amenity diversity, natural comfort, and enclosure, each 0 to 100.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

  • Overall vitality
    62th
  • Edge activation
    26th
  • Connectivity
    98th
  • Amenity diversity
    98th
  • Natural comfort
    36th
  • Enclosure
    25th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Most opposite parks

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

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.

Rate this park on as many dimensions as you have an opinion about. 1 = not at all, 5 = strongly. Skip the ones you don't feel sure about. Aggregated only, no comments stored at the row level.

feels socially active
feels comfortable
feels safe
feels connected
feels welcoming
feels ecological / natural
feels good for lingering
feels family-friendly
feels culturally important
70%

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.
  • 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

real Toronto data
  • 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 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.