Pingguo in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Pingguo in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Pingguo plotted against Guangxi and China. The SNDi of new construction in Pingguo rose steadily, compared to Guangxi which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Pingguo's incremental SNDi rose from 2.48 to 2.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pingguo ranked 10th out of 63 cities in Guangxi and 484th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.65
- Rank in China
- 624th of 1843
- Rank in Guangxi
- 10th of 63
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.36
- Rank in China
- 484th of 1843
- Rank in Guangxi
- 10th of 63
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ambarawa, Indonesia
- 웅상, South Korea
- Dunwoody, United States
- Yiyang, China
- Aligudarz, Iran
- Daming, China
In new street additions, Pingguo and Ambarawa both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Yiyang fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Pingguo and Ambarawa both became progressively more disconnected, while Yiyang fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Pingguo had a more connected network than Yiyang in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.