Bozene 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 Bozene plotted against Sud-Ubangi and Democratic Republic of the Congo. While Sud-Ubangi and Democratic Republic of the Congo both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bozene's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bozene's incremental SNDi rose from 3.78 to 10.61 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bozene ranked 4th out of 5 cities in Sud-Ubangi and 115th 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?

• Monapo, Mozambique
• Huzhen, China
• Bhimber Gali, Jammu and Kashmir
• Guyuk, Nigeria
• Dahra Djoloff, Senegal
• Okaya, Japan

Bozene, Monapo, and Guyuk all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Bozene had a more connected network than Monapo in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.