Palencia 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 Palencia plotted against Castilla y León and Spain. While Castilla y León and Spain both peaked in 1976-1990, Palencia's new street additions peaked in 1976-1990. Most recently, Palencia's incremental SNDi fell from 1.94 to 1.6 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Palencia ranked 3rd out of 5 cities in Castilla y León and 28th out of 85 in Spain as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Bhandaria, Bangladesh
• Thun, Switzerland
• Jiangxian, China
• Loralai, Pakistan
• Ning'er, China
• Yi'an, China

In new street additions, Palencia built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Bhandaria built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Loralai built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Palencia grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Bhandaria became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Loralai became progressively more disconnected. Palencia and Bhandaria have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.