Wusu 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 Wusu plotted against Xinjiang Uygur and China. The SNDi of new construction in Wusu peaked in 1976-1990, compared to Xinjiang Uygur which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and China which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Wusu's incremental SNDi fell from 2.4 to 1.88 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Wusu ranked 6th out of 31 cities in Xinjiang Uygur and 348th 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?

• Titlagarh, India
• Dexing, China
• Tiaong, Philippines
• Ferrol, Spain
• Milak, India
• Tsukuba, Japan

While Titlagarh and Ferrol both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Wusu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Titlagarh and Ferrol both became progressively more disconnected, while Wusu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.