Shanzhou in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Shanzhou in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Shanzhou plotted against Henan and China. While Henan and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Shanzhou's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Shanzhou's incremental SNDi rose from 2.16 to 3.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shanzhou ranked 91st out of 129 cities in Henan and 935th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.58
- Rank in China
- 1181st of 1843
- Rank in Henan
- 106th of 129
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.89
- Rank in China
- 935th of 1843
- Rank in Henan
- 91st of 129
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Emin/Dörbiljin, China
- Zhenning, China
- Stafford, United Kingdom
- Yame, Japan
- Balasinor, India
- Dong-an, North Korea
In new street additions, Shanzhou fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Emin/Dörbiljin fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Yame built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Shanzhou fluctuated in connectivity, while Emin/Dörbiljin became progressively more connected and Yame became progressively more disconnected. Shanzhou and Emin/Dörbiljin have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.