Sinhung in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sinhung in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sinhung plotted against Hamgyŏng-namdo and North Korea. While Hamgyŏng-namdo and North Korea both peaked in 1976-1990, Sinhung's new street additions peaked in 1976-1990. Most recently, Sinhung's incremental SNDi fell from 5.98 to 5.81 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sinhung ranked 8th out of 11 cities in Hamgyŏng-namdo and 65th out of 92 in North Korea as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.81
- Rank in North Korea
- 57th of 92
- Rank in Hamgyŏng-namdo
- 9th of 11
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.77
- Rank in North Korea
- 65th of 92
- Rank in Hamgyŏng-namdo
- 8th of 11
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Qinggang, China
- Phú Liên, Vietnam
- Suiyang, China
- Frameries, Belgium
- Norman, United States
- Guadalajara, Spain
In new street additions, Sinhung and Qinggang both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Frameries built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Qinggang and Frameries both became progressively more disconnected, while Sinhung grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.