Wuxue in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Wuxue in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Wuxue plotted against Hubei and China. The SNDi of new construction in Wuxue followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Hubei which peaked in 1976-1990 and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Wuxue's incremental SNDi fell from 3.7 to 2.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Wuxue ranked 63rd out of 77 cities in Hubei and 1419th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.79
- Rank in China
- 730th of 1843
- Rank in Hubei
- 24th of 77
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.6
- Rank in China
- 1419th of 1843
- Rank in Hubei
- 63rd of 77
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Sunamganj, Bangladesh
- Lafia, Nigeria
- Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil
- Saraf `Umrah, Sudan
- Gangcheng, China
- Leizhou, China
In new street additions, Wuxue fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sunamganj fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Saraf `Umrah built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Wuxue became progressively more connected, while Sunamganj became progressively more disconnected and Saraf `Umrah became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Wuxue and Sunamganj have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.