Azul in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Azul in context

1.21.82.43<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
1.21.82.43<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
AzulBuenos Aires (Region)Argentina (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Azul plotted against Buenos Aires and Argentina. While Buenos Aires and Argentina both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Azul's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Azul's incremental SNDi rose from 1.65 to 2.06 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Azul ranked 9th out of 18 cities in Buenos Aires and 20th out of 77 in Argentina as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.06
Rank in Argentina
47th of 77
Rank in Buenos Aires
10th of 18

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
1.3
Rank in Argentina
20th of 77
Rank in Buenos Aires
9th of 18

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

What about similarly populated cities?

036912<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
036912<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
AzulMogaungBi Jia Cun

In new street additions, Azul fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Mogaung built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and 毕家村 built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Azul and Mogaung both became progressively more disconnected, while 毕家村 became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards.