Corridor / Linear Parkcluster ·Walkable Mid-Rise Neighbourhood Parks (enclosure-leaning)Princess-Rosethorn (10)confidence moderatereal Toronto data

City Wide Open Space

Corridor / Linear Park, below average overall (score 30, rank ~30th percentile). Strongest: connectivity; weakest: edge activation.

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

City Wide Open Space scores 29.9 / 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.

Best for:walking + cycling routeslinear social use

Area · 0.48 ha

Vitality Score

30/100

Weighted across six dimensions · confidence 61%

Data Confidence

29.9 / 100

Citywide

30th

of all 3,273 parks

Among Corridor / Linear Park

37th

same primary typology

Expected for similar parks

median in small Corridor / Linear Park (n=76)

Performance gap

-3

raw − expected · context confidence high

typical

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.

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What pushed this score up or down vs a neutral 50weight × score

Edge Activation0 · p13

-12.5

Amenity Diversity0 · p19

-10.0

Border Vacuum Risk100 (risk)

-5.0

Connectivity65 · p82

+2.9

Enclosure / Eyes on Park78 · p81

+2.8

Natural Comfort61 · p76

+1.7

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

City Wide Open Space works because its connectivity score (65) is above average and its enclosure (78) is also top quartile (13 transit stops sit within a 400 m walk; 10 intersections fall within 100 m of the edge).

What limits this park

City Wide Open Space is held back by edge activation (0, bottom quartile)— the surrounding streets carry too few active uses to spill into the park; border-vacuum risk is also elevated (100).

Most distinctive characteristic

Most distinctive feature: exceptionally low edge activation (0, bottom quartile).

Jacobs reading

City Wide Open Space sits between an urban social park and an ecological retreat — moderately useful for both, exceptionally suited to neither.

Tradeoffs

The park is enclosed by buildings (78) but the surrounding streets are quiet (edge activation 0) — frame without animation.
High connectivity coexists with high border-vacuum risk (100) — much of that connectivity is to highways, rail, or parking lots, not to neighbourhoods.

Typology classification

confidence 75%

Corridor / Linear Parkalso reads as Urban Plaza

Classified as Corridor / Linear Park: shape elongation 2.8× a circle of equal area. Secondary read: Urban Plaza (4828 m², paved (3% canopy), 5.0 buildings/100 m).

Edge Activation

25% weightpartial 60%

0.0 / 100

Within 100 m of the park edge: 4 active uses (transit_stop) and 11 dead/hostile uses (parking_lot, 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

20% weightmeasured 85%

64.6 / 100

Connectivity blends paths, intersections, transit, entrances, and edge density. This park has 7 mapped paths/walkways and 20 sidewalk segments within 50 m; 10 street intersections within 100 m; 13 transit stops within a 400 m walk; 2 estimated access points across ~680 m of perimeter. edge density is healthy — no superblock penalty. Source coverage: centreline, pedestrian_network, transit_osm.

Streets within 25 m9

Intersections within 100 m10

Paths/walkways (50 m)7

Sidewalk segments (50 m)20

Transit stops (400 m)13

Estimated entrances2

Edge connections / 100 m perimeter1.32

Park perimeter680 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% weightpartial 60%

61.4 / 100

Natural-comfort components for this park: ~39.9% effective canopy (2.9% from contiguous tree polygons + scattered tree density); 57 city-mapped trees inside the polygon (57.0/ha). Reading: partially shaded. Source coverage: treed_area, street_trees. Impervious surface is approximated (Toronto's authoritative layer ships only as a raster GeoTIFF).

Canopy coverage2.9%

Canopy area0.01 ha

Inside ravine system0.0%

Water surface inside park0.0%

Nearest water (if outside park)1,500 m

Estimated green100.0%

City-mapped trees inside polygon57

Tree density57.0 / ha

Cover diversity (Shannon, 0–100)19.1

Sample points used34

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

Enclosure / Eyes on Park

10% weightmeasured 80%

78.1 / 100

34 buildings within 25 m of the park edge (7 mid-rise, 27 low-rise, 0 tower); avg edge height 9.8 m (~3 floors); 5.0 buildings per 100 m of 680 m perimeter — strong frontage density; edges are at a Jacobs-scale walkable mid-rise (3–7 floors); no towers immediately adjacent. "Eyes on the park" come strongest from the 7 mid-rise edge buildings.

Buildings within 25 m34

Buildings within 50 m34

Avg edge height9.8 m (~3 floors)

Tallest edge building35.5 m

Mid-rise (3–7 floors)7

Low-rise (< 3 floors)27

Towers (≥ 13 floors)0

Frontage density5.00 per 100 m perimeter

Mid-rise share of edge21%

Tower share of edge0%

Blank-edge share (proxy)0%

Park perimeter680 m

Source: Toronto 3D Massing (building footprints + heights)

Border Vacuum Risk

10% weightpartial 60%

100.0 risk

Border-vacuum factors within 50 m of the park: Eglinton Avenue West, parking_lot, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, parking_lot, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Avenue West. 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

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 (34)

transit stop — Kipling Avenue at Eglinton Avenue West4 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West12 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West14 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West15 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West15 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West15 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West17 m
parking lot21 m
transit stop — Kipling Avenue27 m
parking lot44 m
transit stop — Eglinton Avenue West59 m
transit stop — Kipling Avenue61 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West75 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West79 m
parking lot91 m
retail — M&M Food Market128 m
parking lot133 m
retail — Expedia CruiseShipCenters133 m
retail145 m
transit stop — Wincott Drive148 m
highway — Eglinton Avenue West148 m
retail — Kanda Optician152 m
transit stop — Bemersyde Drive154 m
parking lot160 m
cafe — Timothy's161 m
parking lot179 m
retail — Baybridge by Bayshore183 m
transit stop — Byland Road186 m
retail — Richview Barber188 m
retail — Pet Valu189 m
restaurant — Asian Express191 m
retail — Maxi Mart194 m
transit stop — 250 Wincott Dr - Richview Square Plaza (Rexall)194 m
retail — Sense of Hearing199 m

Park profile

Five-axis radar across the structural dimensions.

Citywide percentile ranks

Across all Toronto parks in the dataset.

Overall vitality
30th
Edge activation
13th
Connectivity
82th
Amenity diversity
19th
Natural comfort
76th
Enclosure
81th

Most similar parks

Closest in metric space across the five structural dimensions.

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Glebe Manor SquareCivic Square39
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Dentonia Park Golf CourseRavine / Naturalized Park31

Most opposite parks

Furthest in metric space — useful for recognising what kind of park this isn’t.

Leslie Grove ParkParkette68
Queen'S Quay Traffic IslandWaterfront Park49
Toronto Islands - Island ParkWaterfront Park52
Kew GardensNeighbourhood Park71
Simcoe ParkTower-Community Green Space51

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 City Wide Open Spacematters. 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.
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 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.