Amparo in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Amparo in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Amparo plotted against São Paulo and Brazil. While São Paulo and Brazil both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Amparo's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Amparo's incremental SNDi rose from 3.96 to 5.35 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Amparo ranked 61st out of 76 cities in São Paulo and 284th out of 365 in Brazil as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.35
- Rank in Brazil
- 328th of 365
- Rank in São Paulo
- 68th of 76
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.18
- Rank in Brazil
- 284th of 365
- Rank in São Paulo
- 61st of 76
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Esik, Kazakhstan
- Wejherowo, Poland
- Danghara, Tajikistan
- Guodian, China
- Nyamilima, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Sungaiguntung, Indonesia
In new street additions, Amparo fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Esik built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Guodian built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Amparo and Esik both became progressively more disconnected, while Guodian grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Amparo had a more connected network than Guodian in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.