Xingping in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Xingping in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Xingping plotted against Shaanxi and China. While Shaanxi and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Xingping's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Xingping's incremental SNDi rose from 3.33 to 4.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Xingping ranked 46th out of 62 cities in Shaanxi and 1295th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.58
- Rank in China
- 1552nd of 1843
- Rank in Shaanxi
- 54th of 62
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.38
- Rank in China
- 1295th of 1843
- Rank in Shaanxi
- 46th of 62
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Kanggye, North Korea
- Sandwip, Bangladesh
- Dessie, Ethiopia
- Pyinmana [Nay Pyi Taw], Myanmar
- Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Satkhira, Bangladesh
While Kanggye and Pyinmana [Nay Pyi Taw] both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Xingping fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Xingping and Kanggye both became progressively more disconnected, while Pyinmana [Nay Pyi Taw] grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Xingping and Kanggye have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.