Uvira 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 Uvira plotted against Sud-Kivu and Democratic Republic of the Congo. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Uvira's incremental SNDi rose from 4.86 to 6.66 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Uvira ranked 4th out of 12 cities in Sud-Kivu and 118th 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?

• Santiago del Estero, Argentina
• Vitsebsk, Belarus
• Guang'an, China
• Utsunomiya, Japan
• Jakdo-dong, North Korea
• Jijiga, Ethiopia

In new street additions, Uvira and Santiago del Estero both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Utsunomiya built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Uvira and Utsunomiya have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.