Yanwucun in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Yanwucun in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Yanwucun plotted against Guangdong and China. The SNDi of new construction in Yanwucun rose steadily, 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, Yanwucun's incremental SNDi rose from 3.47 to 3.63 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Yanwucun ranked 88th out of 133 cities in Guangdong and 1403rd out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.63
- Rank in China
- 1216th of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 60th of 133
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.57
- Rank in China
- 1403rd of 1843
- Rank in Guangdong
- 88th of 133
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Anupshahr, India
- Lalpur, India
- Bloomington, United States
- Taechon, North Korea
- Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand
- Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay
In new street additions, Yanwucun built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Anupshahr built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Taechon fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Yanwucun and Taechon both became progressively more disconnected, while Anupshahr became progressively more connected. Yanwucun and Anupshahr have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.