Yangoji 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 Yangoji plotted against Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria. While Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Yangoji's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Yangoji's incremental SNDi rose from 6.94 to 7.71 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Yangoji ranked 7th out of 7 cities in Federal Capital Territory and 408th 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?

• Hacienda Río Blanco, Colombia
• Zhangjiawan, China
• Nanma, China
• Dwarka, India
• Dhuraia, India
• Venice, United States

In new street additions, Yangoji and Hacienda Río Blanco both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Dwarka built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Yangoji became progressively more disconnected, while Hacienda Río Blanco fluctuated in connectivity and Dwarka became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Yangoji and Hacienda Río Blanco have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.