Taourirt in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Taourirt in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Taourirt plotted against Oriental and Morocco. While Oriental and Morocco both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Taourirt's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease. Most recently, Taourirt's incremental SNDi rose from 1.51 to 1.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Taourirt ranked 3rd out of 5 cities in Oriental and 16th out of 72 in Morocco as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.56
- Rank in Morocco
- 11th of 72
- Rank in Oriental
- 1st of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.57
- Rank in Morocco
- 16th of 72
- Rank in Oriental
- 3rd of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Sandoa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Zhengyang, China
- Young Leninist, Russia
- Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
- Peabody, United States
- Longshan, China
Taourirt, Sandoa, and Nakhon Sawan all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. For the full network, Taourirt grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Sandoa fluctuated in connectivity and Nakhon Sawan became progressively more disconnected. Taourirt and Sandoa have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.