San José in context: Street-network sprawl trends
San Jose in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San José plotted against Costa Rica. Both San José and Costa Rica follow the same trend. Most recently, San José's incremental SNDi rose from 7.08 to 7.49 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San José ranked 5th out of 5 in Costa Rica as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.49
- Rank in Costa Rica
- 5th of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.07
- Rank in Costa Rica
- 5th of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Makassar, Indonesia
- Goiânia, Brazil
- Meerut, India
- Manaus, Brazil
- Las Vegas, United States
- Palembang, Indonesia
In new street additions, San José and Makassar both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Manaus fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, San José had a more connected network than Makassar in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.