Kayonza 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 Kayonza plotted against Iburasirazuba and Rwanda. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Kayonza's incremental SNDi rose from 2.16 to 2.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kayonza ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Iburasirazuba and 1st out of 5 in Rwanda as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Awlad Seif, Egypt
• Jianhuai, China
• Spanish Fork, United States
• Luvungi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Satelite Norte, Bolivia
• Dhobley, Somalia

In new street additions, Kayonza built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Awlad Seif fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Luvungi built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Kayonza became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Awlad Seif fluctuated in connectivity and Luvungi became progressively more disconnected. Kayonza and Luvungi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.