Yanqing in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Yanqing in context

2.433.64.2<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2.433.64.2<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
YanqingBeijing (Region)China (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Yanqing plotted against Beijing and China. The SNDi of new construction in Yanqing rose steadily, compared to Beijing which rose steadily and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Yanqing's incremental SNDi rose from 2.93 to 3.24 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Yanqing ranked 2nd out of 10 cities in Beijing and 898th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
3.24
Rank in China
1021st of 1843
Rank in Beijing
2nd of 10

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.85
Rank in China
898th of 1843
Rank in Beijing
2nd of 10

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

What about similarly populated cities?

2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
YanqingUruguaianaMunchon

Yanqing, Uruguaiana, and Munchon all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network.