San Juan de la Maguana 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 San Juan de la Maguana plotted against San Juan and Dominican Republic. The SNDi of new construction in San Juan de la Maguana followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to San Juan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Dominican Republic which rose steadily. Most recently, San Juan de la Maguana's incremental SNDi rose from 1.97 to 3.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Juan de la Maguana ranked 1st out of 1 cities in San Juan and 7th out of 17 in Dominican Republic as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire
• Płock, Poland
• Jianshi, China
• Nefteyugansk, Russia
• Mineral Palace, United States
• Jangaon, India

In new street additions, San Juan de la Maguana fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Guiglo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Nefteyugansk built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Guiglo and Nefteyugansk both became progressively more disconnected, while San Juan de la Maguana fluctuated in connectivity.