Yevpatoriya 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 Yevpatoriya plotted against Crimea and Ukraine. While Crimea and Ukraine both rose steadily, Yevpatoriya's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Yevpatoriya's incremental SNDi rose from 1.7 to 2.89 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Yevpatoriya ranked 1st out of 5 cities in Crimea and 2nd out of 75 in Ukraine as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Kafr Saqr, Egypt
• Phyongwon, North Korea
• Sinop, Brazil
• Liyang, China
• Pernampattu, India
• Shwebo, Myanmar

While Kafr Saqr and Liyang both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Yevpatoriya built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Yevpatoriya and Liyang have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.