Cidade Ocidental 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 Cidade Ocidental plotted against Goiás and Brazil. The SNDi of new construction in Cidade Ocidental rose steadily, compared to Goiás which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Brazil which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Cidade Ocidental's incremental SNDi rose from 2.68 to 4.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Cidade Ocidental ranked 16th out of 17 cities in Goiás and 225th out of 365 in Brazil as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Innsbruck, Austria
• Al-Rumaitha, Iraq
• Guangshui, China
• Shangzhi, China
• Ghardaia, Algeria
• Soran, Iraq

In new street additions, Cidade Ocidental built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Innsbruck built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Shangzhi built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Cidade Ocidental and Innsbruck have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.