Jinshang in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Jinshang in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Jinshang plotted against Fujian and China. While Fujian and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Jinshang's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Jinshang's incremental SNDi rose from 1.84 to 1.97 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jinshang ranked 7th out of 75 cities in Fujian and 325th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.97
- Rank in China
- 230th of 1843
- Rank in Fujian
- 3rd of 75
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.16
- Rank in China
- 325th of 1843
- Rank in Fujian
- 7th of 75
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
Jinshang, Kibet, and Magaria all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. Looking at the full network, Kibet and Magaria both fluctuated in connectivity, while Jinshang grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Jinshang had a more sprawly network than Kibet in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.