Tecoman in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Tecoman in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tecoman plotted against Colima and México. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Tecoman's incremental SNDi rose from 1.64 to 2.02 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tecoman ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Colima and 11th out of 182 in México as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.02
- Rank in México
- 15th of 182
- Rank in Colima
- 1st of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.57
- Rank in México
- 11th of 182
- Rank in Colima
- 1st of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Masvingo, Zimbabwe
- Chongdan, North Korea
- Dingnan, China
- Sihanoukville, Cambodia
- Gedeb, Ethiopia
- Lianxing, China
In new street additions, Tecoman fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Masvingo built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Sihanoukville built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Tecoman and Masvingo both became progressively more disconnected, while Sihanoukville became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards.