Tacurong 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 Tacurong plotted against Sultan Kudarat and Philippines. While Sultan Kudarat and Philippines both rose steadily, Tacurong's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Tacurong's incremental SNDi rose from 3.97 to 4.34 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tacurong ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Sultan Kudarat and 9th 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?

• Hallim-myeon, South Korea
• Cəlilabad, Azerbaijan
• Região Oceânica, Brazil
• Ekwegbe, Nigeria
• Lawrence, United States
• Waimaw, Myanmar

In new street additions, Tacurong built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Hallim-myeon built increasingly connected streets over time and Ekwegbe built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Tacurong became progressively more disconnected, while Hallim-myeon became progressively more connected and Ekwegbe became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Tacurong and Hallim-myeon have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.