La Plata in context: Street-network sprawl trends
La Plata in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with La Plata plotted against Buenos Aires and Argentina. While Buenos Aires and Argentina both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, La Plata's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, La Plata's incremental SNDi rose from 2.18 to 2.84 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, La Plata ranked 13th out of 18 cities in Buenos Aires and 47th out of 77 in Argentina as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.84
- Rank in Argentina
- 65th of 77
- Rank in Buenos Aires
- 14th of 18
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.66
- Rank in Argentina
- 47th of 77
- Rank in Buenos Aires
- 13th of 18
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Dandong, China
- Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- Tengzhou, China
- Gqeberha, South Africa
- Nellore, India
- Jiaozuo, China
In new street additions, La Plata fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Dandong built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Gqeberha built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.