Tirana in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Tirana in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tirana plotted against Tiranë and Albania. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Tirana's incremental SNDi rose from 4.84 to 5.46 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tirana ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Tiranë and 5th out of 6 in Albania as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.46
- Rank in Albania
- 4th of 6
- Rank in Tiranë
- 1st of 1
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.43
- Rank in Albania
- 5th of 6
- Rank in Tiranë
- 1st of 1
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Tirana built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Kavar built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Saltillo fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Tirana and Saltillo both became progressively more disconnected, while Kavar grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Tirana had a more connected network than Kavar in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.