Resources
Only what Situ uses, each with where it is used.
Data
Sources marked “from Sample 4” reached Situ through the files of my earlier space syntax analysis.
| Source | What it gives | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Ville de Montréal, Géobase, réseau routier (Données Québec) | street centrelines with their class and direction | S1 and the walking network, through Sample 4 |
| Ville de Montréal, réseau cyclable (donnees.montreal.ca) | off-street bike and multi-use paths | S1 checks, the walking network |
| Ville de Montréal, sign inventory, excluding parking signs (donnees.montreal.ca), from Sample 4 | stop, all-way, turn and no-entry signs | S3 |
| Ville de Montréal, feux de circulation (donnees.montreal.ca), from Sample 4 | where each traffic light stands, and whether it is permanent | S3 |
| Ville de Montréal, limites de vitesse, file of 2026-02-26 (donnees.montreal.ca), from Sample 4 | the speed limit of each street | S3 |
| Ville de Montréal, comptage des véhicules, cyclistes et piétons (donnees.montreal.ca), downloaded 2026-10-10 | 15-minute counts of each turning movement by kind of road user, at about 23 intersections in and around Griffintown, 2024 to 2026 | Movement counts: light timing at 7 S1 junctions; later S5 and S9 |
| Ville de Montréal, vélos, comptage sur les pistes cyclables, files “Ville” 2025 and 2026 and the sites’ locations (Données Québec), downloaded 2026-10-15 | hourly bicycles at the city’s permanent detectors, June 2025 to October 2026 | S5: three detectors inside the area |
| Ville de Montréal, arbres publics, bornes d’incendie, trottoir et îlot and entraves et travaux en cours (donnees.montreal.ca), downloaded 2026-10-16 | public trees, fire hydrants, sidewalk and island outlines, road works on one day | S6 |
| Ville de Montréal, feux pour piétons (donnees.montreal.ca), downloaded 2026-10-10 | which lights have pedestrian signals: 30 of the 31 in S1 | Movement counts |
| OpenStreetMap, through the Overpass API | footpaths and park paths, as a second opinion | S1 checks, C18 park paths |
| Mapillary | street-level photos, CC BY-SA 4.0 | S1 checks, M01 |
| Mapillary map features API (graph.mapillary.com/map_features), fetched 2026-10-10 | 1,455 signs detected in photos, with the direction each faces | Checking the sources, S3 checks |
| Mapillary map features API, fetched 2026-10-16 | 30,410 objects detected in photos around the area; S6 keeps the street lights, surveillance cameras and painted crossings inside it and uses hydrants, benches, bins and racks to measure agreement | S6 |
| OpenStreetMap street lamps, surveillance cameras and crossings (Overpass API), fetched 2026-10-16 | 72 lamps, 55 cameras and 481 crossings inside the area | S6 |
| Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021, tables 98-10-0014, 98-10-0478, 98-10-0480 and 98-10-0504, through its Web Data Service, extracts saved 2026-10-16 | homes, people at work, working from home, and when and how commuters travel, for the tracts that cover the area | S7 |
| Statistics Canada, 2021 census tract boundaries (cartographic boundary files) | the tracts that cover the study area | S7 |
| STM, GTFS timetable, feed of 2026-10-07 (stm.info) | metro entrances and bus stops, with their departures on a Wednesday | S7 |
| Cornelissen, L. (2024), What is the connection between working from home and the languages used at work?, Statistics Canada, 75-006-x; The Canadian Press (26 August 2025), on the Labour Force Survey of May 2025 | working from home in Canada: 24.3 % in May 2021, 17.4 % in May 2025 | S7 |
| Mapillary photos by VdM (Ville de Montréal), geodz, une_abeille and AlexPL, 2022 to 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 | the evidence behind each S3 decision | S3 checks with photos |
| Google Street View | street-level photos, for looking only | S1 checks |
| Ville de Montréal, Unités d’évaluation foncière (tax roll) (donnees.montreal.ca, resource 2b9dfc3d-91d3-48de-b32c-a2a6d9417079), fetched 2026-09-25 | use, storeys, dwellings, year built and floor area of each property | S4 |
| Ville de Montréal, Unités d’évaluation foncière, the GeoJSON file with lot outlines (donnees.montreal.ca), saved 2026-10-15 | the outline of the lot each property sits on: 255 distinct lots for 9,379 properties in the study area | S4, to place each property |
| Ville de Montréal, Adresse ponctuelle (address points) (donnees.montreal.ca, resource fed5fd02-5535-458e-b13f-66e7a31a6d78), fetched 2026-09-25 | where each civic number stands, to place the tax roll | S4 |
| Ville de Montréal, Locaux commerciaux et statuts d’occupation, 2025 survey (Données Québec), from Sample 4 | every ground-floor commercial space, occupied or vacant, with its use: 247 in the study area | S4 |
| Ville de Montréal, Lieux et bâtiments à vocation publique (opendatamontreal.ca) | public places with opening hours | S4 |
| OpenStreetMap buildings and places, through the Overpass API, fetched 2026-10-14, ODbL | building outlines, and shops, cafés, offices and parks, 83 of them with opening hours | S4; the outlines also stop the sight lines of S8 |
| OpenStreetMap building parts, through an Overpass mirror, fetched 2026-10-15, ODbL | the storeys of towers drawn as parts on their podiums | S4 |
Opened and set aside for now: Ville de Montréal, Bâtiments 3D 2020 (Données Québec), CityGML, CC BY 4.0. Its Ville-Marie tiles stop at the borough line and hold three small structures of the study area. Le Sud-Ouest has only the 2016 model (Données Québec).
A list of every downloaded file gives each one’s date and licence. The Concordia NGCI building file is listed there too. It carries no licence, so S4 does not use it.
Rules and standards
| Source | What it gives | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Règlement sur la signalisation routière, RLRQ c. C-24.2, r. 41 (LégisQuébec), current to 2026-06-01 | the legal meaning of each kind of sign | S3, Checking the sources |
| Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable, La signalisation routière au Québec, five posters, April 2026 (Québec.ca) | sign codes, names and pictures | S3 |
| Répertoire des dispositifs de signalisation routière du Québec (rsr.transports.gouv.qc.ca) | the official catalogue of signs | S3 |
| Ministère des Ressources naturelles (2001), Guide de signalisation routière sur les terres et dans les forêts du domaine de l’État (BAnQ) | the only free text I found on where turn signs stand | Checking the sources |
Tools
| Tool | Role |
|---|---|
| Python | all code and drawings |
| QGIS | viewing the data |
| PlanX in QGIS, version 4.18 (manual) | the space syntax analysis of each street segment; its radius is checked in Checking the sources |
| Quarto | this book |
Readings
Space syntax
- Hillier, B., & Hanson, J. (1984). The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge University Press.
- Hillier, B., Penn, A., Hanson, J., Grajewski, T., & Xu, J. (1993). Natural movement: or, configuration and attraction in urban pedestrian movement. Environment and Planning B, 20(1), 29–66.
- Hillier, B. (1996). Space is the Machine. Cambridge University Press.
- Ratti, C. (2004). Space syntax: some inconsistencies. Environment and Planning B, 31(4), 487–499.
- Hillier, B., & Iida, S. (2005). Network and psychological effects in urban movement. In Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3693, 475–490. Springer.
- Turner, A. (2007). From axial to road-centre lines: a new representation for space syntax and a new model of route choice for transport network analysis. Environment and Planning B, 34(3), 539–555.
- Hillier, B., Yang, T., & Turner, A. (2012). Normalising least angle choice in Depthmap and how it opens up new perspectives on the global and local analysis of city space. Journal of Space Syntax, 3(2), 155–193.
- van Nes, A., & Yamu, C. (2021). Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies. Springer. Open access.
Spatial culture and rhythm
- Griffiths, S., & von Lünen, A. (Eds.) (2016). Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present. Routledge.
- Adams, R. (2024). Designing Spatial Culture. Routledge.
- Lefebvre, H. (1991). The Production of Space (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Blackwell. (Original work published 1974)
- Lefebvre, H. (2004). Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life (S. Elden & G. Moore, Trans.). Continuum. (Original work published 1992)
Archives and heritage visualisation
- Schellenberg, T. R. (2003). Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques. Society of American Archivists. (Original work published 1956)
- Taylor, D. (2003). The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Duke University Press.
- Denard, H. (Ed.) (2009). The London Charter for the Computer-Based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage, version 2.1. london-charter.org
- López-Menchero, V. M., & Grande, A. (2011). The principles of the Seville Charter. Proceedings of the XXIII CIPA Symposium, Prague.
Traffic
- Webster, F. V. (1958). Traffic Signal Settings. Road Research Technical Paper 39. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
- Ville de Montréal (2007). Assemblée publique sur la révision du réseau artériel de Montréal. Commission permanente sur le transport, 12 April 2007. PDF
- Federal Highway Administration (2023). Highway Functional Classification: Concepts, Criteria and Procedures. U.S. Department of Transportation. PDF
Isovists
- Benedikt, M. L. (1979). To take hold of space: isovists and isovist fields. Environment and Planning B, 6(1), 47–65.
- Batty, M. (2001). Exploring isovist fields: space and shape in architectural and urban morphology. Environment and Planning B, 28(1), 123–150.
- Turner, A., Doxa, M., O’Sullivan, D., & Penn, A. (2001). From isovists to visibility graphs: a methodology for the analysis of architectural space. Environment and Planning B, 28(1), 103–121.
Network measures
- Sabidussi, G. (1966). The centrality index of a graph. Psychometrika, 31(4), 581–603.
- Freeman, L. C. (1977). A set of measures of centrality based on betweenness. Sociometry, 40(1), 35–41.
Page numbers in this site’s citations refer to the editions listed here, and I checked them against the texts in Reading closely.