Souk El Arbaa in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Souk El Arbaa in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Souk El Arbaa plotted against Gharb - Chrarda - Béni Hssen and Morocco. The SNDi of new construction in Souk El Arbaa followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Gharb - Chrarda - Béni Hssen which peaked in 1976-1990 and Morocco which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Souk El Arbaa's incremental SNDi fell from 2.07 to 1.85 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Souk El Arbaa ranked 5th out of 8 cities in Gharb - Chrarda - Béni Hssen and 32nd out of 72 in Morocco as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.85
- Rank in Morocco
- 26th of 72
- Rank in Gharb - Chrarda - Béni Hssen
- 5th of 8
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.94
- Rank in Morocco
- 32nd of 72
- Rank in Gharb - Chrarda - Béni Hssen
- 5th of 8
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Xintian, China
- Bantwal Cross Road, India
- Sahel Silim, Egypt
- посёлок Нагорный, Russia
- Lecco, Italy
- Atibaia, Brazil
In new street additions, Souk El Arbaa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Xintian fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and посёлок Нагорный built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Souk El Arbaa fluctuated in connectivity, while Xintian grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and посёлок Нагорный became progressively more disconnected. Souk El Arbaa and посёлок Нагорный have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.