Uzhhorod 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 Uzhhorod plotted against Zakarpattia and Ukraine. While Zakarpattia and Ukraine both rose steadily, Uzhhorod's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Uzhhorod's incremental SNDi rose from 3.24 to 3.35 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Uzhhorod ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Zakarpattia and 55th 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?

• Cherkessk, Russia
• Denov, Uzbekistan
• Hwado, South Korea
• Jalalpur, India
• Naubatpur, India
• Ağrı, Turkey

In new street additions, Uzhhorod built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Cherkessk built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Jalalpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Uzhhorod and Cherkessk both became progressively more disconnected, while Jalalpur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Uzhhorod and Cherkessk have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.