Jieshan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Jieshan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Jieshan plotted against Fujian and China. While Fujian and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Jieshan's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Jieshan's incremental SNDi rose from 6.32 to 6.78 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jieshan ranked 73rd out of 75 cities in Fujian and 1819th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.78
- Rank in China
- 1792nd of 1843
- Rank in Fujian
- 71st of 75
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.83
- Rank in China
- 1819th of 1843
- Rank in Fujian
- 73rd of 75
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Hojai, India
- Qijiang, China
- Kousseri, Cameroon
- Paarl, South Africa
- Charlotte, United States
- Conghua, China
In new street additions, Jieshan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hojai built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Paarl built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Hojai and Paarl both became progressively more disconnected, while Jieshan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved.