Catanduva 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 Catanduva plotted against São Paulo and Brazil. While São Paulo and Brazil both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Catanduva's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Catanduva's incremental SNDi rose from 1.67 to 2.0 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Catanduva ranked 6th out of 76 cities in São Paulo and 27th 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?

• Ciénaga, Colombia
• Shwebo, Myanmar
• Pernampattu, India
• Rajgarh, India
• Wugang, China
• Onomichi, Japan

In new street additions, Catanduva and Ciénaga both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Rajgarh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Catanduva and Ciénaga both became progressively more disconnected, while Rajgarh fluctuated in connectivity. Catanduva and Ciénaga have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.