Faku 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 Faku plotted against Liaoning and China. The SNDi of new construction in Faku was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Liaoning which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Faku's incremental SNDi rose from 1.29 to 2.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Faku ranked 4th out of 61 cities in Liaoning and 40th 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?

• Agoo, Philippines
• Jinning, China
• Pila, Poland
• Umaria, India
• Bitola, North Macedonia
• Wuding, China

In new street additions, Faku built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Agoo built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Umaria fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Agoo and Umaria both became progressively more disconnected, while Faku became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Faku and Umaria have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.