Gostivar in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gostivar in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gostivar plotted against North Macedonia. Both Gostivar and North Macedonia follow the same trend. Most recently, Gostivar's incremental SNDi rose from 6.26 to 6.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gostivar ranked 7th out of 7 in North Macedonia as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.56
- Rank in North Macedonia
- 7th of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.21
- Rank in North Macedonia
- 7th of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Akre, Iraq
- Capão da Canoa, Brazil
- Tingo María, Peru
- Kailahun, Sierra Leone
- Ipswich, Australia
- Pawapuri, India
In new street additions, Gostivar and Kailahun both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Akre built increasingly connected streets over time. For the full network, Gostivar and Kailahun both became progressively more disconnected, while Akre became progressively more connected. Notably, Gostivar had a more connected network than Akre in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.