Berrouaghia in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Berrouaghia in context

2.43.244.8<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2.43.244.8<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
BerrouaghiaMedea (Region)Algeria (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Berrouaghia plotted against Médéa and Algeria. While Médéa and Algeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, Berrouaghia's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Berrouaghia's incremental SNDi rose from 2.32 to 2.57 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Berrouaghia ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Médéa and 77th out of 109 in Algeria as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.57
Rank in Algeria
61st of 109
Rank in Médéa
1st of 3

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.76
Rank in Algeria
77th of 109
Rank in Médéa
1st of 3

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

2.12.83.54.2<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2.12.83.54.2<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
BerrouaghiaYichezhenMatou

In new street additions, Berrouaghia fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Yichezhen fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Matou built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Berrouaghia grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Yichezhen fluctuated in connectivity and Matou became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Berrouaghia had a more sprawly network than Matou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.