Berkane in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Berkane in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Berkane plotted against Oriental and Morocco. While Oriental and Morocco both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Berkane's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Berkane's incremental SNDi rose from 1.6 to 1.71 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Berkane ranked 2nd out of 5 cities in Oriental and 15th out of 72 in Morocco as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.71
- Rank in Morocco
- 21st of 72
- Rank in Oriental
- 4th of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.57
- Rank in Morocco
- 15th of 72
- Rank in Oriental
- 2nd of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Berkane and Qus both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Batumi built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Berkane and Batumi both became progressively more disconnected, while Qus fluctuated in connectivity. Berkane and Batumi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.