禅妙村 in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with 禅妙村 plotted against Guangdong and China. The SNDi of new construction in 禅妙村 was at its lowest in 1991-2005, compared to Guangdong which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, 禅妙村's incremental SNDi rose from 4.31 to 7.57 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, 禅妙村 ranked 122nd out of 133 cities in Guangdong and 1748th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Mokopane, South Africa
• Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Brazil
• Fatehabad, India
• Boye, China
• Lạng Sơn, Vietnam
• Kayempur, Bangladesh

In new street additions, 禅妙村 built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Mokopane built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Boye fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Mokopane and Boye both became progressively more disconnected, while 禅妙村 became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. 禅妙村 and Mokopane have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.