Lund 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 Lund plotted against Skåne and Sweden. While Skåne and Sweden both rose steadily, Lund's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Lund's incremental SNDi rose from 1.42 to 1.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lund ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Skåne and 1st out of 17 in Sweden as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Mahwal, India
• Shaikh Muhammad, Iraq
• Dhuri, India
• Jubayt, Sudan
• Al-Hirah, Iraq
• Fangcheng, China

While Mahwal and Jubayt both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Lund built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Lund became progressively more disconnected, while Mahwal fluctuated in connectivity and Jubayt became progressively more connected. Lund and Jubayt have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.