Kanye in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Kanye in context

1.82.12.42.73<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
1.82.12.42.73<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
KanyeSouthern (Region)Botswana (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kanye plotted against Southern and Botswana. While Southern and Botswana both peaked in 1991-2005, Kanye's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Kanye's incremental SNDi fell from 2.92 to 2.75 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kanye ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Southern and 3rd out of 7 in Botswana as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.75
Rank in Botswana
3rd of 7
Rank in Southern
1st of 1

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.19
Rank in Botswana
3rd of 7
Rank in Southern
1st of 1

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

What about similarly populated cities?

0.91.82.73.64.5<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
0.91.82.73.64.5<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
KanyeMoradihBatatais

In new street additions, Kanye built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Moradih built increasingly connected streets over time and Batatais built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Kanye and Batatais both became progressively more disconnected, while Moradih became progressively more connected.