Dingbian in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dingbian in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dingbian plotted against Shaanxi and China. While Shaanxi and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Dingbian's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Dingbian's incremental SNDi rose from 2.12 to 2.95 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dingbian ranked 5th out of 62 cities in Shaanxi and 233rd out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.95
- Rank in China
- 849th of 1843
- Rank in Shaanxi
- 32nd of 62
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.01
- Rank in China
- 233rd of 1843
- Rank in Shaanxi
- 5th of 62
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Effon Alaiye, Nigeria
- Kattumannarkoil, India
- Oyama, Japan
- Songzi, China
- Andimeshk, Iran
- Charkhi Dadri, India
Dingbian, Effon Alaiye, and Songzi all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. Looking at the full network, Effon Alaiye and Songzi both fluctuated in connectivity, while Dingbian became progressively more disconnected. Dingbian and Songzi have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.