Luputa 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 Luputa plotted against Lomami and Democratic Republic of the Congo. While Lomami and Democratic Republic of the Congo both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Luputa's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Luputa's incremental SNDi rose from 4.39 to 7.32 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Luputa ranked 6th out of 8 cities in Lomami and 147th out of 186 in Democratic Republic of the Congo as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Salalah, Oman
• Kalay, Myanmar
• Limbe, Cameroon
• Udaipur, India
• Wanlaweyn, Somalia

In new street additions, Luputa and Nijmegen both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Limbe built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Luputa and Nijmegen have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.