Dekemhare in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dekemhare in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dekemhare plotted against Debub and Eritrea. The SNDi of new construction in Dekemhare peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Debub which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Eritrea which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Dekemhare's incremental SNDi fell from 2.07 to 1.68 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dekemhare ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Debub and 3rd out of 8 in Eritrea as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.68
- Rank in Eritrea
- 2nd of 8
- Rank in Debub
- 1st of 1
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.66
- Rank in Eritrea
- 3rd of 8
- Rank in Debub
- 1st of 1
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Taein-dong, South Korea
- Shimm al Basal al Bahari, Egypt
- Mantes-la-Ville, France
- Yanggao, China
- Lingpu, China
- Ramos Arizpe, México
While Taein-dong and Yanggao both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Dekemhare built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full network, Dekemhare became progressively more disconnected, while Taein-dong became progressively more connected and Yanggao grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Dekemhare and Taein-dong have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.