Sosnowiec in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sosnowiec in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sosnowiec plotted against Śląskie and Poland. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Sosnowiec's incremental SNDi rose from 2.46 to 3.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sosnowiec ranked 1st out of 8 cities in Śląskie and 17th out of 63 in Poland as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.58
- Rank in Poland
- 40th of 63
- Rank in Śląskie
- 2nd of 8
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.08
- Rank in Poland
- 17th of 63
- Rank in Śląskie
- 1st of 8
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Jizzakh, Uzbekistan
- Jamalpur, Bangladesh
- Hui'an, China
- Raiwind, Pakistan
- London, Canada
- Dashiqiao, China
In new street additions, Sosnowiec and Raiwind both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Jizzakh built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Sosnowiec and Jizzakh have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.