Xiping in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Xiping in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Xiping plotted against Jiangsu and China. While Jiangsu and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Xiping's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Xiping's incremental SNDi rose from 3.49 to 6.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Xiping ranked 99th out of 101 cities in Jiangsu as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.92
- Rank in Jiangsu
- 100th of 101
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.66
- Rank in Jiangsu
- 99th of 101
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Jinhae-gu, South Korea
- Ramanagara, India
- Sha, China
- Pweto, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egbe, Nigeria
- Lakhai, Bangladesh
In new street additions, Xiping and Jinhae-gu both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Pweto built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Xiping fluctuated in connectivity, while Jinhae-gu became progressively more disconnected and Pweto became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards.