Leavenworth Parkette
Urban Plaza, in the top tier overall (score 43, rank ~85th percentile). Strongest: edge activation; weakest: natural comfort.
Aerial — City of Toronto orthophoto, ~8 cm/px source · cached 5/9/2026
Leavenworth Parkette scores 43.2 / 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.
Area · 0.07 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 43 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 (51) 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 (+7 vs the median in pocket Urban Plaza).
Typology classification
Classified as Urban Plaza: 676 m², paved (0% canopy), 29.8 buildings/100 m
Edge Activation
Within 100 m of the park edge: 10 active uses (restaurant, retail, transit_stop) and 2 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
Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 0 mapped paths/walkways and 6 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 4 street intersections within 100 m; 12 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 1 estimated access points across ~107 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
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 ~520 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
32 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (2 mid-rise, 30 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 6.1 m (~2 floors); 29.8 buildings per 100 m of 107 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 2 mid-rise edge buildings.
Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)
Border Vacuum Risk
Park edges face the city — no significant border vacuum detected.
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 (27)
- transit stop5 m
- transit stop — Leavenworth Crescent25 m
- restaurant — Subway43 m
- retail — Dollar Topia49 m
- retail59 m
- retail — Pastries & Delicatessen64 m
- parking lot75 m
- parking lot76 m
- retail — Daisy Mart79 m
- retail — Lifestream Medical Center86 m
- retail — N&A Nails Spa93 m
- retail — West Mall Hairstylists98 m
- transit stop — Bloor Street West100 m
- restaurant — Matt’s Burger Lab102 m
- retail — Alana's Flowers & Gifts107 m
- retail — Melrose Window Coverings107 m
- retail — West Mall Super Save Food Mart114 m
- highway — Highway 427 Collector123 m
- restaurant — Western Kitchen124 m
- parking lot135 m
- transit stop — Bloor Street at The West Mall136 m
- cafe — Starbucks146 m
- restaurant — Pizza Nova155 m
- transit stop — Bloor Street at The West Mall165 m
- transit stop — Bloor Street West169 m
- highway — Highway 427 Express179 m
- transit stop — Bloor Street West North Side192 m
Park profile
Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.
Citywide percentile ranks
Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.
- Overall vitality85th
- Edge activation95th
- Connectivity57th
- Amenity diversity31th
- Natural comfort7th
- Enclosure79th
Most similar parks
Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza40
- City Wide Open SpaceUrban Plaza41
- Don Mills United Church CemeteryUrban Plaza46
- NEW TORONTO SENIORS' CENTRE - Building GroundsUrban Plaza44
- QUEEN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH GROUNDS - Building GroundsUrban Plaza44
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 ParkWaterfront Park25
- Rouge ParkRavine / Naturalized Park26
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 Leavenworth 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.
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.