Myitkyina in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Myitkyina in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Myitkyina plotted against Kachin and Myanmar. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Myitkyina's incremental SNDi rose from 2.29 to 4.28 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Myitkyina ranked 1st out of 7 cities in Kachin and 12th out of 113 in Myanmar as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.28
- Rank in Myanmar
- 59th of 113
- Rank in Kachin
- 1st of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.19
- Rank in Myanmar
- 12th of 113
- Rank in Kachin
- 1st of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Myitkyina and Bijnor both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Wazirabad built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Myitkyina and Wazirabad have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.