La Vega in context: Street-network sprawl trends
La Vega in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with La Vega plotted against Dominican Republic. Both La Vega and Dominican Republic follow the same trend. Most recently, La Vega's incremental SNDi rose from 2.38 to 3.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, La Vega ranked 9th out of 17 in Dominican Republic as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.56
- Rank in Dominican Republic
- 10th of 17
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.3
- Rank in Dominican Republic
- 9th of 17
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, La Vega and Amreli both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Gamharia fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, La Vega and Amreli both became progressively more disconnected, while Gamharia fluctuated in connectivity. La Vega and Gamharia have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.