Campo Grande 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 Campo Grande plotted against Mato Grosso do Sul and Brazil. The SNDi of new construction in Campo Grande rose steadily, compared to Mato Grosso do Sul which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Brazil which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Campo Grande's incremental SNDi rose from 1.95 to 2.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Campo Grande ranked 2nd out of 4 cities in Mato Grosso do Sul and 73rd 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?

• Lubango, Angola
• Bucaramanga, Colombia
• Aguascalientes, México
• Jining, China
• Sitamarhi, India
• Cuernavaca, México

In new street additions, Campo Grande built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Lubango built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Jining built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Campo Grande became progressively more disconnected, while Lubango grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Jining became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Campo Grande and Jining have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.