Juxian 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 Juxian plotted against Shandong and China. The SNDi of new construction in Juxian peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Shandong which peaked in 1976-1990 and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Juxian's incremental SNDi fell from 2.33 to 1.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Juxian ranked 26th out of 124 cities in Shandong and 133rd 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?

• El Senbellawein, Egypt
• Srikakulam, India
• Linying, China
• Mavelikkara, India
• Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• Garissa, Kenya

In new street additions, Juxian built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while El Senbellawein built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Mavelikkara built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Juxian grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while El Senbellawein became progressively more disconnected and Mavelikkara became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Juxian and El Senbellawein have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.