Wushengguan in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Wushengguan plotted against Hubei and China. The SNDi of new construction in Wushengguan peaked in 1976-1990, compared to Hubei which peaked in 1976-1990 and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Wushengguan's incremental SNDi fell from 3.9 to 2.26 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Wushengguan ranked 72nd out of 77 cities in Hubei and 1587th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Itwa, India
• Banes, Cuba
• Caçador, Brazil
• Yinong, China
• Malanpur, India
• Proppo, Indonesia

While Itwa and Yinong both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Wushengguan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Itwa and Yinong both became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Wushengguan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved.