Kuching in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kuching in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kuching plotted against Sarawak and Malaysia. While Sarawak and Malaysia both rose steadily, Kuching's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Kuching's incremental SNDi rose from 5.82 to 5.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kuching ranked 3rd out of 6 cities in Sarawak and 32nd out of 43 in Malaysia as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.92
- Rank in Malaysia
- 31st of 43
- Rank in Sarawak
- 3rd of 6
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.4
- Rank in Malaysia
- 32nd of 43
- Rank in Sarawak
- 3rd of 6
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Toyohashi, Japan
- Qujing, China
- Chhapra, India
- Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denizli, Turkey
Kuching, Bissau, and Chhapra all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Kuching and Chhapra have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.