El-Shaikh Youssef in context: Street-network sprawl trends

El-Shaikh Youssef in context

345678<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
345678<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
El-Shaikh YoussefSuhaj (Region)Egypt (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with El-Shaikh Youssef plotted against Suhaj and Egypt. While Suhaj and Egypt both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, El-Shaikh Youssef's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, El-Shaikh Youssef's incremental SNDi rose from 5.79 to 7.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, El-Shaikh Youssef ranked 11th out of 13 cities in Suhaj and 199th out of 213 in Egypt as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
7.56
Rank in Egypt
188th of 213
Rank in Suhaj
11th of 13

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
6.49
Rank in Egypt
199th of 213
Rank in Suhaj
11th of 13

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

What about similarly populated cities?

02468<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
02468<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
El-Shaikh YoussefYanxiQin

In new street additions, El-Shaikh Youssef fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Yanxi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Qin built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. Looking at the full network, Yanxi and Qin both became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while El-Shaikh Youssef fluctuated in connectivity. El-Shaikh Youssef and Yanxi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.