Fria 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 Fria plotted against Boké and Guinea. The SNDi of new construction in Fria followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Boké which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Guinea which rose steadily. Most recently, Fria's incremental SNDi rose from 3.5 to 5.36 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Fria ranked 3rd out of 4 cities in Boké and 12th out of 24 in Guinea as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Salaiya, India
• Al Maymun, Egypt
• Tupã, Brazil
• Morales, Guatemala
• Kashiwazaki, Japan
• Chinnamanur, India

In new street additions, Fria fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Salaiya fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Morales built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Fria and Morales both became progressively more disconnected, while Salaiya became progressively more disconnected. Fria and Salaiya have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.