Guangzhou in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Guangzhou in context
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The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Guangzhou plotted against Guangdong and China. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Guangzhou's incremental SNDi rose from 3.4 to 4.07 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Guangzhou ranked 79th out of 133 cities in Guangdong and 1289th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.07
- Rank in China
- 1424th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 79th of 133
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.37
- Rank in China
- 1289th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 79th of 133
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
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