Maradun 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 Maradun plotted against Zamfara and Nigeria. The SNDi of new construction in Maradun followed a zig-zag trend, compared to Zamfara which peaked in 1976-1990 and Nigeria which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Maradun's incremental SNDi rose from 3.27 to 12.47 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Maradun ranked 8th out of 9 cities in Zamfara and 393rd 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?

• Temse, Belgium
• Xiangyuan, China
• Billings, United States
• Ratanpur, India
• Kakata, Liberia
• Bijali, India

While Temse and Ratanpur both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Maradun fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Maradun fluctuated in connectivity, while Temse became progressively more disconnected and Ratanpur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Maradun and Temse have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.