Chenzhou in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Chenzhou in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Chenzhou plotted against Hunan and China. While Hunan and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Chenzhou's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chenzhou's incremental SNDi rose from 2.91 to 3.81 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chenzhou ranked 48th out of 89 cities in Hunan and 1044th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.81
- Rank in China
- 1311th of 1843
- Rank in Hunan
- 68th of 89
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.02
- Rank in China
- 1044th of 1843
- Rank in Hunan
- 48th of 89
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Cheonan-si, South Korea
- Palakkad, India
- Skopje, North Macedonia
- Fuyang, China
- Songzhuang, China
- Mazatlán, México
Chenzhou, Cheonan-si, and Fuyang all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. For the full network, Chenzhou and Cheonan-si both became progressively more disconnected, while Fuyang fluctuated in connectivity.