Lianping in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Lianping in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Lianping plotted against Guangdong and China. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Lianping's incremental SNDi rose from 1.46 to 2.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lianping ranked 7th out of 133 cities in Guangdong and 176th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.74
- Rank in China
- 686th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 25th of 133
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.9
- Rank in China
- 176th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 7th of 133
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Lianping and Balsas both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Puqian built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Lianping and Balsas both fluctuated in connectivity, while Puqian grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Lianping had a more sprawly network than Puqian in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.