Fuzhou in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Fuzhou in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Fuzhou plotted against Fujian and China. While Fujian and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Fuzhou's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Fuzhou's incremental SNDi rose from 4.02 to 4.03 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fuzhou ranked 43rd out of 75 cities in Fujian as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.03
- Rank in Fujian
- 47th of 75
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.46
- Rank in Fujian
- 43rd of 75
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Algiers, Algeria
- Owerri, Nigeria
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Kalyan-Dombivli, India
- Savar, Bangladesh
- P'yŏngyang, North Korea
Fuzhou, Algiers, and Kalyan-Dombivli all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network.