Agoo 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 Agoo plotted against La Union and Philippines. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Agoo's incremental SNDi rose from 5.76 to 6.55 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Agoo ranked 1st out of 2 cities in La Union and 51st out of 114 in Philippines as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Jinning, China
• Pila, Poland
• Morin Dawa, China
• Faku, China
• Umaria, India
• Bitola, North Macedonia

In new street additions, Agoo built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Jinning built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Faku built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Agoo became progressively more disconnected, while Jinning grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Faku became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Agoo and Jinning have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.