Kaiping in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kaiping in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kaiping plotted against Guangdong and China. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Kaiping's incremental SNDi rose from 2.88 to 3.42 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kaiping ranked 45th out of 133 cities in Guangdong and 819th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.42
- Rank in China
- 1115th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 51st of 133
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.77
- Rank in China
- 819th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 45th of 133
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Tundla, India
- Myeik, Myanmar
- Xuancheng, China
- Armenia, Colombia
- Pamplona, Spain
- Shangyu District, China
In new street additions, Kaiping and Armenia both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tundla fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Kaiping and Armenia both became progressively more disconnected, while Tundla became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Kaiping and Armenia have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.