Puerto Madryn in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Puerto Madryn plotted against Chubut and Argentina. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Puerto Madryn's incremental SNDi rose from 0.99 to 1.07 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Puerto Madryn ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Chubut and 4th out of 77 in Argentina as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Keningau, Malaysia
• Kirodimal Nagar, India
• Bugulma, Russia
• Duttapulia, India
• Tsévié, Togo
• Bouira, Algeria

In new street additions, Puerto Madryn fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Keningau built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Duttapulia built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Keningau and Duttapulia both became progressively more disconnected, while Puerto Madryn grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Puerto Madryn and Keningau have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.