Huangshi in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Huangshi in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Huangshi plotted against Hubei and China. While Hubei and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Huangshi's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Huangshi's incremental SNDi rose from 3.58 to 3.75 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Huangshi ranked 66th out of 77 cities in Hubei and 1487th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.75
- Rank in China
- 1279th of 1843
- Rank in Hubei
- 62nd of 77
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.78
- Rank in China
- 1487th of 1843
- Rank in Hubei
- 66th of 77
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Huangshi and Jambi both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Fuyang built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Jambi and Fuyang both became progressively more disconnected, while Huangshi grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Huangshi and Jambi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.