M'Saken in context: Street-network sprawl trends
M'Saken in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with M'Saken plotted against Sousse and Tunisia. The SNDi of new construction in M'Saken fell steadily, compared to Sousse which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease and Tunisia which peaked in 1976-1990. Most recently, M'Saken's incremental SNDi fell from 1.79 to 1.71 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, M'Saken ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Sousse and 13th out of 24 in Tunisia as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.71
- Rank in Tunisia
- 4th of 24
- Rank in Sousse
- 1st of 2
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.04
- Rank in Tunisia
- 13th of 24
- Rank in Sousse
- 2nd of 2
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Lar, India
- Hengshan, China
- Maygyr, Uzbekistan
- Qingyang, China
- Pervomaisk, Ukraine
- Komani, South Africa
In new street additions, M'Saken built increasingly connected streets over time, while Lar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Qingyang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, M'Saken became progressively more connected, while Lar fluctuated in connectivity and Qingyang grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. M'Saken and Lar have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.