Puerto Princesa in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Puerto Princesa in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Puerto Princesa plotted against Palawan and Philippines. While Palawan and Philippines both rose steadily, Puerto Princesa's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Puerto Princesa's incremental SNDi rose from 4.63 to 5.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Puerto Princesa ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Palawan and 45th out of 114 in Philippines as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.23
- Rank in Philippines
- 37th of 114
- Rank in Palawan
- 1st of 1
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.41
- Rank in Philippines
- 45th of 114
- Rank in Palawan
- 1st of 1
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Singkawang, Indonesia
- Nankana Sahib, Pakistan
- Yiyuan, China
- Zixing, China
- Fushun, China
- Yingde, China
In new street additions, Puerto Princesa and Singkawang both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Zixing fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Puerto Princesa and Singkawang have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.