Tafawa-Balewa in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Tafawa-Balewa in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tafawa-Balewa plotted against Bauchi and Nigeria. While Bauchi and Nigeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Tafawa-Balewa's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Tafawa-Balewa's incremental SNDi rose from 7.54 to 11.89 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tafawa-Balewa ranked 13th out of 13 cities in Bauchi and 414th out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 11.89
- Rank in Nigeria
- 412th of 422
- Rank in Bauchi
- 13th of 13
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 8.79
- Rank in Nigeria
- 414th of 422
- Rank in Bauchi
- 13th of 13
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Tafawa-Balewa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Rajauli fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and 龙山镇 built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Tafawa-Balewa fluctuated in connectivity, while Rajauli became progressively more connected and 龙山镇 became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Tafawa-Balewa and Rajauli have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.