San Cristóbal in context: Street-network sprawl trends
San Cristobal in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with San Cristóbal plotted against Dominican Republic. Both San Cristóbal and Dominican Republic follow the same trend. Most recently, San Cristóbal's incremental SNDi rose from 3.78 to 4.97 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Cristóbal ranked 15th out of 17 in Dominican Republic as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.97
- Rank in Dominican Republic
- 17th of 17
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.64
- Rank in Dominican Republic
- 15th of 17
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Wuhua, China
- Ezbet Nazif, Egypt
- Ijebu-Igbo, Nigeria
- Atyrau, Kazakhstan
- Jishou, China
- Shancheng, China
In new street additions, San Cristóbal built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Wuhua built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Atyrau built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, San Cristóbal became progressively more disconnected, while Wuhua became progressively more connected and Atyrau grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, San Cristóbal had a more connected network than Atyrau in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.