Masohi 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 Masohi plotted against Maluku and Indonesia. While Maluku and Indonesia both rose steadily, Masohi's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Masohi's incremental SNDi rose from 4.38 to 5.84 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Masohi ranked 1st out of 4 cities in Maluku and 4th 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?

• Santa Barbara, United States
• O’Fallon, United States
• Wanaparthy, India
• Dhanaura, India
• Chongnam, North Korea
• Singida, Tanzania

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