Al Aamerah 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 Al Aamerah plotted against Abu Dhabi and United Arab Emirates. The SNDi of new construction in Al Aamerah fell steadily, compared to Abu Dhabi which peaked in 1991-2005 and United Arab Emirates which rose steadily. Most recently, Al Aamerah's incremental SNDi fell from 3.14 to 2.98 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Al Aamerah ranked 9th out of 9 cities in Abu Dhabi and 14th out of 15 in United Arab Emirates as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Luxi, China
• Belsand, India
• Kyaikto, Myanmar
• Yongning, China
• Bandaragama, Sri Lanka
• El Tocuyo, Venezuela

In new street additions, Al Aamerah built increasingly connected streets over time, while Luxi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Yongning built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Al Aamerah became progressively more connected, while Luxi fluctuated in connectivity and Yongning grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Al Aamerah had a more sprawly network than Yongning in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.