Kanazawa 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 Kanazawa plotted against Ishikawa and Japan. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Kanazawa's incremental SNDi rose from 1.82 to 1.93 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kanazawa ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Ishikawa and 13th out of 135 in Japan as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
• Suining, China
• At Ta'if, Saudi Arabia
• Zhaoqing, China
• Rizhao, China
• Maradi, Niger

In new street additions, Kanazawa and Zhaoqing both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Dera Ghazi Khan built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Kanazawa and Dera Ghazi Khan both became progressively more disconnected, while Zhaoqing fluctuated in connectivity. Kanazawa and Dera Ghazi Khan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.