Fuyu in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Fuyu plotted against Jilin and China. While Jilin and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Fuyu's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Fuyu's incremental SNDi rose from 2.5 to 2.95 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fuyu ranked 17th out of 47 cities in Jilin and 536th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Sanjaypur, Bangladesh
• Neyyatinkara, India
• Namur, Belgium
• Sumusta, Egypt
• Barhampur, India
• Betnoti, India

In new street additions, Fuyu fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sanjaypur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Sumusta built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Fuyu became progressively more disconnected, while Sanjaypur fluctuated in connectivity and Sumusta became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Fuyu and Sumusta have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.