Crawford - Jones Memorial Park
Waterfront Park, middle of the pack overall (score 30, rank ~32th percentile). Strongest: natural comfort; weakest: enclosure.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Crawford - Jones Memorial Park scores 30.3 / 100. Strongest dimensions: natural comfort and enclosure / eyes on park. Weakest: amenity diversity (0). Border-vacuum risk is elevated (84). This score is a transparent reading of Jane Jacobs-style vitality factors — not a definitive judgment.
Area · 9.47 ha
Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 63%
Scores are not bell-curved. Percentiles and expected scores provide context without changing the underlying model.
Explain this score
Where did the 30 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
- The park is enclosed by buildings (62) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
Performance in context
- Reads as a modest underperformer relative to comparable parks (gap -7; cohort: large Waterfront Park waterfront).
Typology classification
Classified as Waterfront Park: 20% water surface inside park. Secondary read: Civic Square (name flags as civic square + 3.8 buildings per 100 m frontage).
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 7 active uses (restaurant, retail) and 20 dead/hostile uses (highway, parking_lot, rail). 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 21 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 6 street intersections within 100 m; 14 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 9 estimated access points across ~2,141 m of perimeter. low edge density — significant 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: 24.6% estimated tree canopy; 100.0% inside the ravine system; 20.3% water surface; 33 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (3.5/ha). Reading: ravine-cooled. Source coverage: treed_area, ravine, waterbodies, 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
81 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (5 mid-rise, 74 low-rise, 2 tower); avg edge height 7.5 m (~3 floors); 3.8 buildings per 100 m of 2,141 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are low-rise (mostly 2–3 floors); 2 towers ≥ 40 m within 25 m of the edge. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 5 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Weston Subdivision, Weston Subdivision, Weston Subdivision, GO Transit Weston Subdivision, 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 (73)
- parking lot0 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision41 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision42 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision42 m
- rail — GO Transit Weston Subdivision43 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector52 m
- parking lot59 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector65 m
- parking lot67 m
- parking lot76 m
- parking lot77 m
- parking lot78 m
- parking lot79 m
- rail81 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision82 m
- parking lot83 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision84 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision85 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express86 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express91 m
- retail — John's Orthopedic Specialties95 m
- restaurant — Fat Bastard Burrito96 m
- retail — Holland Store97 m
- retail — Lavello Nails and Beauty Spa98 m
- retail99 m
- retail — Beams Beauty Salon & Supply100 m
- retail — The UPS Store100 m
- retail — Thomas Specialy Health Care103 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector105 m
- parking lot105 m
- highway — Highway 401 Express111 m
- parking lot114 m
- retail — Caspian Motors114 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector119 m
- transit stop — Weston Rd at Oak St122 m
- parking lot123 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector131 m
- parking lot132 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector136 m
- retail — Shell Select138 m
- transit stop — Weston Rd at Oak St139 m
- parking lot146 m
- parking lot147 m
- transit stop — Cardell Avenue148 m
- transit stop — Weston Rd at Cardell Ave151 m
- parking lot154 m
- parking lot157 m
- transit stop158 m
- restaurant — Crab Boil158 m
- parking lot159 m
- retail — Value Village163 m
- rail — GO Transit Weston Subdivision163 m
- retail — Mexican Barbershop164 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision165 m
- rail — GO Transit Weston Subdivision167 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision167 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector168 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision169 m
- retail — Chain Saw Clinic171 m
- retail — Mary Jane’s Cannabis172 m
- restaurant — Bar Burrito173 m
- retail — Dollarama175 m
- restaurant — Sunset Grill178 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision179 m
- retail — Fine Tuned Auto Service179 m
- parking lot182 m
- retail — True North Optical187 m
- transit stop — Weston Rd at Dee Ave187 m
- highway — Highway 401 Collector189 m
- rail — Weston Subdivision197 m
- parking lot197 m
- transit stop — Weston Rd at Knob Hill Dr198 m
- parking lot198 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality32th
- Edge activation48th
- Connectivity71th
- Amenity diversity53th
- Natural comfort86th
- Enclosure43th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceNeighbourhood Park28
- City Wide Open SpaceRavine / Naturalized Park29
- City Wide Open SpaceParkette34
- Pioneer Creek VillageRavine / Naturalized Park36
- Public Access PropertyCorridor / Linear Park40
Most opposite parks
Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.
- Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
- ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN - Open Green SpaceUrban Plaza59
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell ParkUrban Plaza50
- Sonya'S ParkUrban Plaza60
- Bernard Avenue Road AllowanceUrban Plaza54
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.
- 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.