Parit Buntar in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Parit Buntar in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Parit Buntar plotted against Perak and Malaysia. The SNDi of new construction in Parit Buntar followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Perak which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Malaysia which rose steadily. Most recently, Parit Buntar's incremental SNDi rose from 4.04 to 4.41 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Parit Buntar ranked 5th out of 5 cities in Perak and 14th out of 43 in Malaysia as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.41
- Rank in Malaysia
- 12th of 43
- Rank in Perak
- 4th of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.86
- Rank in Malaysia
- 14th of 43
- Rank in Perak
- 5th of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Anak, North Korea
- Ameer Abad Kalay, Pakistan
- Mul, India
- Puttalam, Sri Lanka
- Tingo María, Peru
- Capão da Canoa, Brazil
In new street additions, Parit Buntar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Anak fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Puttalam built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Parit Buntar and Puttalam both became progressively more disconnected, while Anak fluctuated in connectivity. Parit Buntar and Puttalam have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.