Susan Tibaldi Parkette
Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 46, rank ~89th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: natural comfort.
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Susan Tibaldi Parkette scores 46.4 / 100. Strongest dimensions: enclosure / eyes on park and connectivity. Weakest: amenity diversity (19.9). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (78). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors, not a definitive judgment.
Area · 0.13 ha
What's here
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 65%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
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Explain this score
Where did the 46 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
Susan Tibaldi Parkette works because its connectivity score (79) is one of the city's strongest and its edge activation (42) is also top decile (26 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 17 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).
What limits this park
Susan Tibaldi Parkette's edges are fronted by border-vacuum land uses (highways, rail, parking, blank institutional), risk score 78.
Most distinctive characteristic
Most distinctive feature: exceptionally high connectivity (79, top decile).
Jacobs reading
Susan Tibaldi Parkette sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat: moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.
Tradeoffs
- Connectivity (79) significantly outpaces natural comfort (40): well placed in the city but offers little shade or ecological respite.
- High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (78): much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.
Performance in context
- A modest overperformer for its urban plaza typology (+9 vs the median in pocket Urban Plaza).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 1286 m², paved (0% canopy), 47.1 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 51 active uses (restaurant, retail, cafe) and 6 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, rail, 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 8 mapped paths/walkways and 22 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 17 street intersections within 100 m; 26 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 8 estimated access points across ~191 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
2 distinct amenity types in the park (playground, drinking_water). 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
Natural-comfort components for this park: ~7.7% effective canopy (0.0% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); 11 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (11.0/ha). Reading: exposed. Source coverage: street_trees. 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
90 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (6 mid-rise, 84 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.9 m (~2 floors); 47.1 buildings per 100 m of 191 m perimeter (strong frontage density); edges are low-rise (mostly 2 to 3 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 6 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Toronto Parking Authority, Line 2 Bloor-Danforth, Line 2 Bloor-Danforth, Bloor Street 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
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 (2 types · 3 records)
- playground
- drinking water
Nearby active-edge features (80)
- rail: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth0 m
- rail: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth0 m
- retail: Saponeti20 m
- cafe: Buco Café28 m
- retail: Bloor Army Surplus36 m
- retail: Cell Phone Clinic36 m
- retail: Tower City Inc Dollar & Variety37 m
- restaurant: Bar Neon37 m
- retail37 m
- retail: BikeDepot.com37 m
- retail: Bengal Grocery & Variety38 m
- retail38 m
- retail: TCM Spa Bloor Inc.38 m
- retail: Blue Collar Bakery38 m
- retail: Lashed by Carina39 m
- restaurant: Duffy's Tavern39 m
- retail: Five Star Variety42 m
- retail45 m
- retail: Bakerbots @ home46 m
- retail: Magic Touch Beauty Salon47 m
- parking lot: Toronto Parking Authority47 m
- highway: Bloor Street West50 m
- highway: Bloor Street West50 m
- highway: Bloor Street West51 m
- retail: SL Graphics & Printing51 m
- retail: Sweet Pete's Bicycle Shop52 m
- retail: Vape Pub57 m
- retail: Comfrey Spa62 m
- retail: Colibri Tattoo & Piercings63 m
- retail64 m
- restaurant: Monte Bianco64 m
- cafe: Bunna Aroma65 m
- retail: Town66 m
- retail: QT Jewellery & Watches66 m
- retail: Nail Spa & Massage Clinic66 m
- retail: Corner Pocket66 m
- retail: Amkay's Mk's67 m
- retail: Supermart Convenience67 m
- retail: Mona Lisa Hair Salon68 m
- retail: Ransack the Universe68 m
- restaurant: Pizza Pizza68 m
- retail: The Hermits Lamp70 m
- restaurant: Sad Songs Cantina71 m
- retail: Nut House72 m
- restaurant: Alma75 m
- retail: Vito's Barbershop76 m
- restaurant: Subway77 m
- retail: Bangladesh Corner Variety77 m
- retail: Mississaugas of the Credit Medicine Wheel78 m
- restaurant: Ibet Sushi80 m
- retail: Queens's Shop80 m
- restaurant: Grey Tiger81 m
- restaurant: Island Oysters85 m
- restaurant: Latin World85 m
- retail: The Sword & Board86 m
- restaurant: The Three Speed89 m
- restaurant: Burdock Brewery90 m
- highway: Bloor Street West100 m
- retail: The Salvation Army101 m
- retail: Dee'tails Dog Grooming104 m
- transit stop: Emerson Avenue (Lansdowne Station)105 m
- highway: Bloor Street West111 m
- retail: Family Fruit and Flower113 m
- restaurant: Green Bamboo115 m
- retail: Galaxy T&T118 m
- restaurant: African Delight118 m
- retail: Bloordale Village Laundromat120 m
- restaurant: Latin World121 m
- retail: Old Finds General Store & Tea Shop123 m
- retail: Furniture Emporium126 m
- retail: Eyesore Cinema127 m
- restaurant: The John132 m
- retail133 m
- retail136 m
- retail: Growers Retail136 m
- restaurant: Happy Cub Bar & Restaurant138 m
- retail142 m
- retail: Easy Health Food Store143 m
- retail: HashLands Cannabis Co150 m
- cafe: Tim Hortons160 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality89th
- Edge activation93th
- Connectivity98th
- Amenity diversity66th
- Natural comfort35th
- Enclosure87th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- Robertson ParketteUrban Plaza48
- Cathedral Church Of St. JamesParkette52
- Dundas - St.Clarens ParketteUrban Plaza54
- Glen Stewart ParkRavine / Naturalized Park51
- George Hislop ParkUrban Plaza52
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.
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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.
- 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. Boundaries are reconciled against OpenStreetMap (ODbL) for new and updated parks.
- 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.