Dongning in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dongning in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dongning plotted against Heilongjiang and China. While Heilongjiang and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Dongning's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Dongning's incremental SNDi rose from 2.7 to 2.77 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dongning ranked 37th out of 67 cities in Heilongjiang and 595th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.77
- Rank in China
- 714th of 1843
- Rank in Heilongjiang
- 29th of 67
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.51
- Rank in China
- 595th of 1843
- Rank in Heilongjiang
- 37th of 67
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Dongning and Julu both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Pathanamthitta built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Dongning fluctuated in connectivity, while Pathanamthitta became progressively more disconnected and Julu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Dongning and Pathanamthitta have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.