Miluo in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Miluo in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Miluo plotted against Hunan and China. While Hunan and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Miluo's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Miluo's incremental SNDi rose from 3.21 to 3.35 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Miluo ranked 58th out of 89 cities in Hunan and 1260th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.35
- Rank in China
- 1074th of 1843
- Rank in Hunan
- 55th of 89
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.31
- Rank in China
- 1260th of 1843
- Rank in Hunan
- 58th of 89
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Miluo and Balotra both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Pokhara built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Miluo fluctuated in connectivity, while Balotra became progressively more disconnected and Pokhara became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Miluo and Balotra have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.