Rubuchi 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 Rubuchi plotted against Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria. While Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Rubuchi's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Rubuchi's incremental SNDi rose from 4.5 to 6.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rubuchi ranked 6th out of 7 cities in Federal Capital Territory and 399th 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?

• Ash Shamiya, Iraq
• Penrith, Australia
• Xinghua, China
• Jalore, India
• Kraksaan, Indonesia
• Alamata, Ethiopia

In new street additions, Rubuchi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Ash Shamiya fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Jalore built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Rubuchi fluctuated in connectivity, while Ash Shamiya became progressively more connected and Jalore grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Rubuchi and Ash Shamiya have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.