Suifenhe in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Suifenhe in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Suifenhe plotted against Heilongjiang and China. While Heilongjiang and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Suifenhe's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Suifenhe's incremental SNDi rose from 2.09 to 2.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Suifenhe ranked 13th out of 67 cities in Heilongjiang and 141st out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.59
- Rank in China
- 578th of 1843
- Rank in Heilongjiang
- 25th of 67
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.82
- Rank in China
- 141st of 1843
- Rank in Heilongjiang
- 13th 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, Suifenhe fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Gurue fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Tha Chang built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Suifenhe and Tha Chang both became progressively more disconnected, while Gurue became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Suifenhe and Gurue have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.