Zrenjanin 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 Zrenjanin plotted against Srednje-Banatski and Serbia. The SNDi of new construction in Zrenjanin peaked in 1976-1990, compared to Srednje-Banatski which peaked in 1976-1990 and Serbia which rose steadily. Most recently, Zrenjanin's incremental SNDi fell from 2.94 to 2.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Zrenjanin ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Srednje-Banatski and 1st 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?

• Alvand, Iran
• Goa, Philippines
• Tilda Neora, India
• Van Gia Town, Vietnam
• Sarawa, Egypt
• Xianfeng, China

In new street additions, Zrenjanin built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Alvand built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Van Gia Town built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Zrenjanin and Van Gia Town both became progressively more disconnected, while Alvand became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Zrenjanin and Alvand have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.