Nuevo Casas Grandes 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 Nuevo Casas Grandes plotted against Chihuahua and México. While Chihuahua and México both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Nuevo Casas Grandes's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Nuevo Casas Grandes's incremental SNDi rose from 1.2 to 1.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nuevo Casas Grandes ranked 1st out of 6 cities in Chihuahua and 4th out of 182 in México as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Quixadá, Brazil
• Brits, South Africa
• Dekina, Nigeria
• Taher, Algeria
• Colônia de Férias Ministro João Cleófas, Brazil
• Chenari, India

In new street additions, Nuevo Casas Grandes fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Quixadá built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Taher built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Taher both became progressively more disconnected, while Quixadá grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.