Ado in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ado in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ado plotted against Nasarawa and Nigeria. The SNDi of new construction in Ado rose steadily, compared to Nasarawa which rose steadily and Nigeria which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Ado's incremental SNDi rose from 4.01 to 4.67 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ado ranked 7th out of 7 cities in Nasarawa and 332nd out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.67
- Rank in Nigeria
- 247th of 422
- Rank in Nasarawa
- 6th of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.3
- Rank in Nigeria
- 332nd of 422
- Rank in Nasarawa
- 7th of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Bohicon, Benin
- Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Bonsa Bota, Ethiopia
- Supaul, India
- Deir el-Balah, Palestine
- Veraval, India
In new street additions, Ado and Bohicon both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Supaul built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Ado and Bohicon have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.