Insights
Different parks do different jobs. Comparing all of them on a single Vitality score is a useful summary; it also hides almost everything interesting. These pages cut the data several ways and ask: what kind of park is this, and what would a useful intervention look like? Every chart and number here is computed from the live ETL pipeline.
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How the catalogue is distributed
Vitality Score distribution
Overall Jacobs Vitality Score across all 3,273 parks.
Typology distribution
Number of parks classified into each typology.
Natural Comfort by typology
Mean Natural Comfort within each typology. Ravines and Wilderness lead by design.
Enclosure by typology
Mean Enclosure within each typology. Civic Squares and Parkettes lead.
Browse every analysis
The rest of the catalogue, grouped by the kind of question each page answers.
Rankings
Single-dimension leaderboards across the catalogue.- Best-connected parksHighest Connectivity scores: many streets, entrances, and transit nearby.
- Most naturally comfortableHighest Natural Comfort. Canopy, ravine, water.
- Best-enclosed parksStrongest mid-rise frontage, Jacobs-style 'eyes on the park'.
- Most balanced parksParks that work across all five dimensions, not just one.
- Most Jacobsian parksHighest urban integration with at least moderate comfort.
- Most isolated parksLow connectivity and few active edges.
Paradoxes
Parks where two signals point in opposite directions.Tradeoffs
Where one strength is bought with another weakness.Validation
The model checked against human judgement.- Contested parksWhere public sentiment disagrees with the model. Public-feedback driven.
- DisagreementWhere humans disagree with the model: contested parks, loved-despite-weak-metrics, overrated.
- Human vs modelScatter plots of perception (1 to 5) vs structural score (0 to 100) across four dimensions.
- Beloved calibrationDoes the model approximately align with collective intuition? Curated 'iconic' park list compared to cohort.
Performance
Parks measured against comparable peers.Visitor signal
What civic attention and reviews reveal.Data trust
Coverage, provenance, and the review queue.Top of every list
Sorted ascending; lowest by design.