Halfaya in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Halfaya in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Halfaya plotted against Hamah and Syria. The SNDi of new construction in Halfaya rose steadily, compared to Hamah which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Syria which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Halfaya's incremental SNDi rose from 2.94 to 3.45 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Halfaya ranked 3rd out of 3 cities in Hamah and 25th out of 39 in Syria as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.45
- Rank in Syria
- 25th of 39
- Rank in Hamah
- 2nd of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.45
- Rank in Syria
- 25th of 39
- Rank in Hamah
- 3rd of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Druzhkivka, Ukraine
- Radhanpur, India
- Paju, South Korea
- Anarkol, China
- Ginir, Ethiopia
- Youyang, China
In new street additions, Halfaya and Anarkol both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Druzhkivka fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Halfaya and Druzhkivka have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.