Saqultah 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 Saqultah plotted against Suhaj and Egypt. The SNDi of new construction in Saqultah peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Suhaj which peaked in 1991-2005 and Egypt which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Saqultah's incremental SNDi fell from 7.03 to 5.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Saqultah ranked 9th out of 13 cities in Suhaj and 182nd out of 213 in Egypt as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Дзержинский район, Russia
• Sungailiat, Indonesia
• Suruç, Turkey
• Niwai, India
• Jatibarang, Indonesia
• Itatiba, Brazil

While Дзержинский район and Niwai both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Saqultah built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full network, Saqultah became progressively more disconnected, while Дзержинский район became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Niwai became progressively more connected. Notably, Saqultah had a more connected network than Niwai in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.