Bathurst - Wilson Parkette
Parkette, near the bottom of the city overall (score 20, rank ~3th percentile). Strongest: amenity diversity; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Bathurst - Wilson Parkette scores 20.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. 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 · 0.34 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 20 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 (23) — well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
- The park is enclosed by buildings (66) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
Performance in context
- Strong underperformer relative to its cohort — raw 20 vs an expected 36 (gap -16).
Typology classification
Classified as Parkette: small (3430 m²) with strong building frontage (4.0 per 100 m)
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 12 active uses (transit_stop, restaurant, retail) and 20 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 10 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 11 street intersections within 100 m; 16 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 0 estimated access points across ~327 m of perimeter. moderate edge density — small superblock penalty applied. 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 ~1208 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
13 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (3 mid-rise, 10 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 7.1 m (~2 floors); 4.0 buildings per 100 m of 327 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 3 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Highway 401 Collector, Highway 401 Collector, Highway 401 Express, Highway 401 Collector, Highway 401 Collector, parking_lot. 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 (59)
- transit stop — Bathurst Street at Wilson Avenue10 m
- transit stop — Wilson Avenue at Bathurst Street East Side12 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector13 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector16 m
- transit stop — Bathurst Street at Wilson Avenue South Side23 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector29 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express36 m
- transit stop — Wilson Avenue at Bathurst Street44 m
- parking lot47 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector48 m
- parking lot53 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express53 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express54 m
- parking lot60 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express62 m
- transit stop — Bathurst Street at Wilson Avenue65 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express72 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector72 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector74 m
- parking lot76 m
- transit stop — Wilson Avenue at Bathurst Street West Side80 m
- retail80 m
- transit stop — 270 Wilson Avenue (No Frills)80 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express83 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector84 m
- retail — Xcash Money Solutions87 m
- retail — ComNCom89 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express90 m
- parking lot92 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector93 m
- restaurant — SALU SALO FILIPINO FOOD & GROCERIES95 m
- retail — Elevyn's Hair Salon & Nail Spa100 m
- restaurant — JollyTops104 m
- restaurant — Atin Ito105 m
- parking lot107 m
- parking lot109 m
- restaurant — Republika RestoBar and Grill111 m
- parking lot112 m
- restaurant — Pizza Cafe117 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express119 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector131 m
- transit stop — Bathurst Street at Southbourne Ave141 m
- parking lot144 m
- parking lot146 m
- parking lot153 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express153 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector155 m
- parking lot157 m
- retail — H&H Groceries Store161 m
- restaurant — Popeyes162 m
- restaurant — Food Trip169 m
- parking lot172 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express174 m
- cafe — Aroma Espresso Bar175 m
- restaurant — Subway179 m
- restaurant — Top Silog182 m
- retail190 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector195 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector195 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality3th
- Edge activation58th
- Connectivity58th
- Amenity diversity66th
- Natural comfort1th
- Enclosure62th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceCorridor / Linear Park27
- City Wide Open SpaceParkette21
- Winston Churchill Rd Traffic IslandParkette30
- Kelsonia ParketteParkette30
- Public Access PropertyCorridor / Linear Park30
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
- Toronto ZooWaterfront Park57
- Mclevin Woods ParkRavine / Naturalized Park49
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 Bathurst - Wilson Parkettematters. 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 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.