San Lorenzo 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 San Lorenzo plotted against Santa Fe and Argentina. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, San Lorenzo's incremental SNDi rose from 1.39 to 1.41 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Lorenzo ranked 1st out of 8 cities in Santa Fe and 10th 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?

• Kopaganj, India
• Minyat al Hayt, Egypt
• Lahti, Finland
• Quwo, China
• Liu'erbao, China
• Alangulam, India

While Kopaganj and Quwo both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, San Lorenzo fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Kopaganj and Quwo both grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while San Lorenzo became progressively more disconnected.