Xia in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Xia in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Xia plotted against Shanxi and China. The SNDi of new construction in Xia rose steadily, compared to Shanxi which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Xia's incremental SNDi rose from 3.47 to 3.77 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Xia ranked 42nd out of 80 cities in Shanxi and 1181st out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.77
- Rank in China
- 1296th of 1843
- Rank in Shanxi
- 61st of 80
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.2
- Rank in China
- 1181st of 1843
- Rank in Shanxi
- 42nd of 80
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Palaw, Myanmar
- Tuanfeng, China
- Minusinsk, Russia
- Mao, Dominican Republic
- Mithapur, India
- Grufes Sector de Mujere, Guatemala
Xia, Palaw, and Mao all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network.