Hagadera Refugee Camp in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Hagadera Refugee Camp in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Hagadera Refugee Camp plotted against Garissa and Kenya. The SNDi of new construction in Hagadera Refugee Camp was at its lowest in 1991-2005, compared to Garissa which was at its lowest in 1991-2005 and Kenya which rose steadily. Most recently, Hagadera Refugee Camp's incremental SNDi rose from 1.77 to 2.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hagadera Refugee Camp ranked 4th out of 6 cities in Garissa and 6th out of 45 in Kenya as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.08
- Rank in Kenya
- 7th of 45
- Rank in Garissa
- 4th of 6
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.92
- Rank in Kenya
- 6th of 45
- Rank in Garissa
- 4th of 6
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Sreenagar, Bangladesh
- Tandil, Argentina
- Al Khalis, Iraq
- Loikaw, Myanmar
- Kuchaman, India
- Khairthal, India
In new street additions, Hagadera Refugee Camp built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Sreenagar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Loikaw built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Hagadera Refugee Camp became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Sreenagar fluctuated in connectivity and Loikaw grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Hagadera Refugee Camp had a more sprawly network than Sreenagar in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.