Fenghuang in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Fenghuang in context

1.62.43.24<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
1.62.43.24<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
FenghuangJiangsu (Region)China (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Fenghuang plotted against Jiangsu and China. While Jiangsu and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Fenghuang's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Fenghuang's incremental SNDi rose from 1.95 to 1.99 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fenghuang ranked 14th out of 101 cities in Jiangsu and 201st out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
1.99
Rank in China
241st of 1843
Rank in Jiangsu
16th of 101

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
1.95
Rank in China
201st of 1843
Rank in Jiangsu
14th of 101

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

What about similarly populated cities?

234567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
234567<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
FenghuangKumanovoNovomoskovsk

In new street additions, Fenghuang fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kumanovo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Novomoskovsk built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.