诚心村 in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Cheng Xin Cun in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with 诚心村 plotted against Jiangsu and China. While Jiangsu and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, 诚心村's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, 诚心村's incremental SNDi rose from 1.73 to 3.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, 诚心村 ranked 74th out of 101 cities in Jiangsu and 1219th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.74
- Rank in China
- 1277th of 1843
- Rank in Jiangsu
- 81st of 101
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.25
- Rank in China
- 1219th of 1843
- Rank in Jiangsu
- 74th of 101
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Mashimba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Simara, Nepal
- Manica, Mozambique
- Istalef, Afghanistan
- Ghammas, Iraq
- Guemar, Algeria
In new street additions, 诚心村 fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Mashimba built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Istalef built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, 诚心村 became progressively more disconnected, while Mashimba became progressively more connected and Istalef grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. 诚心村 and Mashimba have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.