Puerto Plata in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Puerto Plata in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Puerto Plata plotted against Dominican Republic. Both Puerto Plata and Dominican Republic follow the same trend. Most recently, Puerto Plata's incremental SNDi rose from 3.95 to 4.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Puerto Plata ranked 14th out of 17 in Dominican Republic as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.92
- Rank in Dominican Republic
- 16th of 17
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.56
- Rank in Dominican Republic
- 14th of 17
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Mandla, India
- Zhoukoudian, China
- Renk, South Sudan
- Mengcheng, China
- Mthatha, South Africa
- Xiping, China
In new street additions, Puerto Plata and Mandla both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Mengcheng built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Puerto Plata and Mandla both became progressively more disconnected, while Mengcheng grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Puerto Plata and Mandla have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.