Kissidougou 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 Kissidougou plotted against Faranah and Guinea. While Faranah and Guinea both rose steadily, Kissidougou's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Kissidougou's incremental SNDi rose from 5.27 to 5.35 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kissidougou ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Faranah and 17th 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?

• Wutongqiao, China
• Jamshoro, Pakistan
• Paechon, North Korea
• Sha, China
• Ramanagara, India
• Jinhae-gu, South Korea

In new street additions, Kissidougou built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Wutongqiao built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Sha fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Kissidougou became progressively more disconnected, while Wutongqiao grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Sha became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Kissidougou and Wutongqiao have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.