Young Leninist 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 Young Leninist plotted against Novosibirsk and Russia. While Novosibirsk and Russia both rose steadily, Young Leninist's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Young Leninist's incremental SNDi rose from 4.75 to 5.27 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Young Leninist ranked 3rd out of 3 cities in Novosibirsk and 235th out of 252 in Russia as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Huinan, China
• Santana, Brazil
• Abu `Arish, Saudi Arabia
• Zhengyang, China
• Sandoa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Taourirt, Morocco

In new street additions, Young Leninist built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Huinan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Zhengyang fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Young Leninist and Huinan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.