Kamsar 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 Kamsar plotted against Boké and Guinea. While Boké and Guinea both rose steadily, Kamsar's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Kamsar's incremental SNDi rose from 3.5 to 5.2 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kamsar ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Boké and 14th 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?

• Hinomine 3-chome, Japan
• Jhinjhak, India
• Lalsot, India
• Huolong, China
• الفاروق, Saudi Arabia
• Ji-Paraná, Brazil

In new street additions, Kamsar built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Hinomine 3-chome fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Huolong fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Kamsar and Hinomine 3-chome both became progressively more disconnected, while Huolong became progressively more connected. Kamsar and Hinomine 3-chome have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.