Brunswick 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 Brunswick plotted against Niedersachsen and Germany. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Brunswick's incremental SNDi rose from 2.46 to 3.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Brunswick ranked 4th out of 9 cities in Niedersachsen and 31st out of 99 in Germany as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Zaoyang, China
• Nazareth, Israel
• Halle (Saale), Germany
• Jieshi, China
• Qidong, China
• Шелепино, Russia

While Zaoyang and Jieshi both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, Brunswick built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Brunswick and Zaoyang both became progressively more disconnected, while Jieshi grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Brunswick and Zaoyang have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.