Waingapu 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 Waingapu plotted against Nusa Tenggara Timur and Indonesia. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Waingapu's incremental SNDi rose from 4.44 to 5.12 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Waingapu ranked 3rd out of 12 cities in Nusa Tenggara Timur and 51st 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?

• Tala, Egypt
• Bà Rịa, Vietnam
• Dilling, Sudan
• Poços de Caldas, Brazil
• Tizi Ouzou, Algeria
• Mamrezpur Al, India

In new street additions, Waingapu and Poços de Caldas both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Tala built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Waingapu and Poços de Caldas both became progressively more disconnected, while Tala became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Waingapu had a more connected network than Tala in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.