Novy Urengoy 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 Novy Urengoy plotted against Yamal-Nenets and Russia. The SNDi of new construction in Novy Urengoy followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Yamal-Nenets which rose steadily and Russia which rose steadily. Most recently, Novy Urengoy's incremental SNDi fell from 3.26 to 2.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Novy Urengoy ranked 2nd out of 3 cities in Yamal-Nenets and 47th 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?

• Shibata, Japan
• Longzhou, China
• Artyom, Russia
• Luxi, China
• Aschaffenburg, Germany
• Bhokar, India

In new street additions, Novy Urengoy fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Shibata fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Luxi built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Novy Urengoy became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Shibata became progressively more disconnected and Luxi grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Novy Urengoy had a more connected network than Luxi in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.