Laoling in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Laoling in context

1234<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
1234<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
LaolingShandong (Region)China (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Laoling plotted against Shandong and China. While Shandong and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Laoling's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Laoling's incremental SNDi rose from 1.58 to 2.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Laoling ranked 29th out of 124 cities in Shandong and 165th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.74
Rank in China
684th of 1843
Rank in Shandong
69th of 124

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
1.88
Rank in China
165th of 1843
Rank in Shandong
29th of 124

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

036912<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
036912<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
LaolingGangtokPilsen

In new street additions, Laoling fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Gangtok fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Pilsen built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Laoling and Pilsen both became progressively more disconnected, while Gangtok became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Laoling and Pilsen have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.