Cosenza 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 Cosenza plotted against Calabria and Italy. While Calabria and Italy both peaked in 1991-2005, Cosenza's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Cosenza's incremental SNDi fell from 4.35 to 3.71 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Cosenza ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Calabria and 72nd out of 88 in Italy as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Shuifu, China
• Sarapul, Russia
• Bhinmal, India
• Jaén, Spain
• Butajira, Ethiopia
• Matli, Pakistan

In new street additions, Cosenza built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Shuifu built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Jaén built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Cosenza became progressively more disconnected, while Shuifu became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Jaén grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Cosenza and Jaén have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.