Heuleut 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 Heuleut plotted against Jawa Barat and Indonesia. The SNDi of new construction in Heuleut peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Jawa Barat which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Indonesia which rose steadily. Most recently, Heuleut's incremental SNDi fell from 6.31 to 6.28 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Heuleut ranked 24th out of 38 cities in Jawa Barat and 306th 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?

• Alanya, Turkey
• Chagni, Ethiopia
• Sinanju, North Korea
• Manzanillo, Cuba
• Doka Ashafa, Nigeria
• Cizre, Turkey

In new street additions, Heuleut built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Alanya built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Manzanillo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Heuleut and Manzanillo both became progressively more disconnected, while Alanya became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards.