Caijiapo in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Caijiapo in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Caijiapo plotted against Shaanxi and China. While Shaanxi and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Caijiapo's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Caijiapo's incremental SNDi rose from 3.93 to 4.84 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Caijiapo ranked 53rd out of 62 cities in Shaanxi and 1599th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.84
- Rank in China
- 1604th of 1843
- Rank in Shaanxi
- 57th of 62
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.2
- Rank in China
- 1599th of 1843
- Rank in Shaanxi
- 53rd of 62
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Monastir, Tunisia
- Wolha-dong, South Korea
- Khunti, India
- Arasikere, India
- Ravenna, Italy
- Liuhe, China
In new street additions, Caijiapo and Monastir both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Arasikere built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Caijiapo fluctuated in connectivity, while Monastir became progressively more disconnected and Arasikere became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Caijiapo and Arasikere have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.