Buco-Zau in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Buco-Zau in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Buco-Zau plotted against Cabinda and Angola. While Cabinda and Angola both rose steadily, Buco-Zau's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Buco-Zau's incremental SNDi rose from 6.59 to 9.85 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Buco-Zau ranked 3rd out of 3 cities in Cabinda and 56th out of 56 in Angola as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 9.85
- Rank in Angola
- 54th of 56
- Rank in Cabinda
- 3rd of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.01
- Rank in Angola
- 56th of 56
- Rank in Cabinda
- 3rd of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Mitwaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Thilawa, Myanmar
- Sesquilé, Colombia
- Recetor, Colombia
- Magwi, South Sudan
- Al Ared, Saudi Arabia
In new street additions, Buco-Zau built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Mitwaba built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Recetor fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Buco-Zau became progressively more disconnected, while Mitwaba became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Recetor became progressively more disconnected. Buco-Zau and Mitwaba have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.