Le Mée-sur-Seine 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 Le Mée-sur-Seine plotted against Île-de-France and France. While Île-de-France and France both peaked in 1991-2005, Le Mée-sur-Seine's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Le Mée-sur-Seine's incremental SNDi fell from 4.06 to 2.68 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Le Mée-sur-Seine ranked 4th out of 8 cities in Île-de-France and 56th out of 73 in France as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Tracy, United States
• Jena, Germany
• Al Manshiyah al Qibliyah, Egypt
• Murbad, India
• Periyakulam, India
• Tanjung, Indonesia

In new street additions, Le Mée-sur-Seine and Tracy both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Murbad fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Tracy and Murbad both became progressively more disconnected, while Le Mée-sur-Seine grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Le Mée-sur-Seine and Tracy have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.