Guelma in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Guelma in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Guelma plotted against Algeria. Both Guelma and Algeria follow the same trend. Most recently, Guelma's incremental SNDi rose from 2.48 to 2.52 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Guelma ranked 66th out of 109 in Algeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.52
- Rank in Algeria
- 59th of 109
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.48
- Rank in Algeria
- 66th of 109
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Suryapet, India
- Kafanchan, Nigeria
- Qionghai, China
- Tadepallegudem, India
- Khatauli, India
- Mannarkkad, India
While Suryapet and Tadepallegudem both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Guelma fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Guelma had a more sprawly network than Tadepallegudem in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.