Bwari in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bwari plotted against Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria. While Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bwari's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bwari's incremental SNDi rose from 3.44 to 3.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bwari ranked 2nd out of 7 cities in Federal Capital Territory and 270th out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Upper Coomera, Australia
• 珞璜工业园, China
• Huanta, Peru
• Orito, Colombia
• Owode Ede, Nigeria
• Matola-Rio, Mozambique

In new street additions, Bwari and Orito both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Upper Coomera fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Bwari became progressively more disconnected, while Upper Coomera became progressively more connected and Orito fluctuated in connectivity. Bwari and Upper Coomera have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.