Banjarsari 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 Banjarsari plotted against Jawa Barat and Indonesia. While Jawa Barat and Indonesia both rose steadily, Banjarsari's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Banjarsari's incremental SNDi rose from 4.65 to 5.36 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Banjarsari ranked 10th out of 38 cities in Jawa Barat and 177th out of 366 in Indonesia as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Dayao, China
• Pakhtaobod, Uzbekistan
• Dingxing, China
• Rajpipla, India
• Klagenfurt, Austria
• Kadoma, Zimbabwe

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