Urban Plazacluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (enclosure-leaning)Waterfront Communities-The Island (77)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

David Crombie Park

Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 46, rank ~91th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.

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

David Crombie Park scores 46.3 / 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.

Best for:daily passing-throughpocket meetings

Area · 0.14 ha

Vitality Score

46/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 56%

Data Confidence

46.3 / 100

Citywide

91st

of all 3,273 parks

Among Urban Plaza

86th

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in pocket Urban Plaza (n=337)

Performance gap

+10

raw − expected · context confidence high

modest overperformer

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

Explain this score

Where did the 46 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 · p33

-10.0

Border Vacuum Risk0 (risk)

+5.0

Natural Comfort25 · p7

-3.8

Connectivity65 · p82

+2.9

Enclosure / Eyes on Park74 · p75

+2.4

Edge Activation49 · p96

-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

David Crombie Park works because its edge activation score (49) is one of the city's strongest and its connectivity (65) is also top quartile.

What limits this park

David Crombie Park is held back by natural comfort (25, bottom quartile)— only 0% canopy means little summer shade.

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high edge activation (49, top decile).

Jacobs reading

David Crombie Park sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

Connectivity (65) significantly outpaces natural comfort (25) — well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.

Performance in context

A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+10 vs the median in pocket Urban Plaza).

Typology classification

confidence 70%

Urban Plaza

Classified as Urban Plaza: 1363 m², paved (0% canopy), 6.1 buildings/100 m

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

49.1 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 8 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) 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%

64.6 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 12 mapped paths/walkways and 13 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 13 street intersections within 100 m; 32 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~197 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy — no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m5

Intersections within 100 m13

Paths/walkways (50 m)12

Sidewalk segments (50 m)13

Transit stops (400 m)32

Estimated entrances0

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter2.54

Park perimeter197 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%

25.0 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: 0.0% estimated tree canopy; nearest waterbody ~504 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)504 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon0

Tree density0.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)0.0

Sample points used10

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

73.7 / 100

12 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (7 mid-rise, 2 low-rise, 3 tower); avg edge height 26.1 m (~9 floors); 6.1 buildings per 100 m of 197 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges lean tall but still framed; 3 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 7 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m12

Buildings within 50 m12

Avg edge height26.1 m (~9 floors)

Tallest edge building53.0 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)7

Low-rise (< 3 floors)2

Towers (≥ 13 floors)3

Frontage density6.10 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge58%

Tower share of edge25%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter197 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 (54)

transit stop — Lower Sherbourne Street48 m
transit stop — Lower Sherbourne Street63 m
restaurant — Bellissimo72 m
parking lot74 m
transit stop — The Esplanade76 m
transit stop — Frederick Street77 m
retail — Shannon’s Place78 m
retail — J.S. Hair Salon83 m
retail — Crown Cleaners88 m
transit stop — Princess Street102 m
parking lot104 m
retail — market cleaners104 m
transit stop — George Street South115 m
transit stop118 m
transit stop — The Esplanade127 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor131 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor132 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor133 m
retail — St. Lawrence Pro Hardware134 m
transit stop — Princess Street136 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor137 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor139 m
parking lot140 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor141 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor143 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor145 m
restaurant — Shawarma House149 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor149 m
retail — Cheers Fine Foods149 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor151 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor153 m
school — St. Michael Catholic School153 m
restaurant — Miyaki Sushi154 m
restaurant — Pizza Nova155 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor156 m
retail — Gingko Floral Design159 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor160 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor160 m
restaurant — Cluck Clucks Chicken160 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor163 m
restaurant — Subway164 m
restaurant — Farm’r168 m
retail — Royal Foodland175 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor178 m
community — Toronto Public Library - St. Lawrence179 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor181 m
transit stop — Front Street East184 m
transit stop — Lower Jarvis Street185 m
school — Downtown Alternative School190 m
retail — Rabba195 m
restaurant — On the Rocks195 m
rail — Union Station Rail Corridor199 m
community — St. Lawrence Community Recreation Centre200 m
cafe — Tim Hortons200 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
91th
Edge activation
96th
Connectivity
82th
Amenity diversity
33th
Natural comfort
7th
Enclosure
75th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

Sunfield ParkCorridor / Linear Park44
Scarborough Hydro Green SpaceNeighbourhood Park45
Nathan Phillips SquareCivic Square42
Leavenworth ParketteUrban Plaza43
Etobicoke Hydro Green SpaceParkette44

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 ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
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?

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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 — 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.