Borca 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 Borca plotted against Grad Beograd and Serbia. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Borca's incremental SNDi rose from 5.3 to 5.91 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Borca ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Grad Beograd and 12th out of 13 in Serbia as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Davis, United States
• Changling, China
• Babille, Ethiopia
• San Miguel de Allende, México
• Umred, India
• Berdsk, Russia

In new street additions, Borca built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Davis built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and San Miguel de Allende fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Borca became progressively more disconnected, while Davis became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and San Miguel de Allende fluctuated in connectivity. Borca and Davis have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.