Haurgeulis 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 Haurgeulis plotted against Jawa Barat and Indonesia. While Jawa Barat and Indonesia both rose steadily, Haurgeulis's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Haurgeulis's incremental SNDi rose from 3.58 to 4.16 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Haurgeulis ranked 1st out of 38 cities in Jawa Barat and 34th 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?

• Iranshahr, Iran
• Aliganj, India
• Ishinomaki, Japan
• Dogondoutchi, Niger
• Ban Phaeo, Thailand
• Panna, India

In new street additions, Haurgeulis built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Iranshahr built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Dogondoutchi built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Haurgeulis became progressively more disconnected, while Iranshahr grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Dogondoutchi became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Haurgeulis and Iranshahr have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.