Qingping in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Qingping in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Qingping plotted against Guangdong and China. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Qingping's incremental SNDi rose from 7.16 to 10.88 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Qingping ranked 129th out of 133 cities in Guangdong and 1824th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 10.88
- Rank in China
- 1831st of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 131st of 133
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 7.24
- Rank in China
- 1824th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 129th of 133
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Nandikotkur, India
- Khoksha, Bangladesh
- Rashaida Al Hafayer, Sudan
- Sathupally, India
- Neral, India
- Pattamundai, India
In new street additions, Qingping and Sathupally both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Nandikotkur built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Qingping and Nandikotkur have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.