České Budějovice 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 České Budějovice plotted against Jihočeský and Czechia. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, České Budějovice's incremental SNDi rose from 2.61 to 2.75 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, České Budějovice ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Jihočeský and 1st out of 12 in Czechia as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Qeysar, Afghanistan
• Rajgarh, India
• Tardih, India
• Al Mazrub, Sudan
• Azamnagar, India
• Gudur, India

In new street additions, České Budějovice built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Qeysar built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Al Mazrub built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, České Budějovice became progressively more disconnected, while Qeysar became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Al Mazrub became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, České Budějovice had a more connected network than Al Mazrub in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.