Tripoli in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Tripoli in context

23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
23456<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
TripoliNorth (Region)Lebanon (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tripoli plotted against North and Lebanon. While North and Lebanon both rose steadily, Tripoli's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Tripoli's incremental SNDi rose from 2.7 to 2.76 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tripoli ranked 1st out of 1 cities in North and 1st out of 8 in Lebanon as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
2.76
Rank in Lebanon
1st of 8
Rank in North
1st of 1

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.35
Rank in Lebanon
1st of 8
Rank in North
1st of 1

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

What about similarly populated cities?

2.12.83.54.2<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2.12.83.54.2<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
TripoliKashgarSatna

While Kashgar and Satna both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Tripoli built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Tripoli and Kashgar have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.