Ponce in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ponce in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ponce plotted against Puerto Rico. Both Ponce and Puerto Rico follow the same trend. Most recently, Ponce's incremental SNDi fell from 6.59 to 4.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ponce ranked 1st out of 3 in Puerto Rico as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.08
- Rank in Puerto Rico
- 1st of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.8
- Rank in Puerto Rico
- 1st of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Liquan, China
- Sithana, India
- Tiznit, Morocco
- Shwegyin, Myanmar
- Sindelfingen, Germany
- Tobelo, Indonesia
In new street additions, Ponce built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Liquan built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Shwegyin built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Ponce and Liquan both became progressively more disconnected, while Shwegyin became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards.