Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Royal Tunbridge Wells's incremental SNDi fell from 4.53 to 4.39 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Royal Tunbridge Wells ranked 79th out of 124 cities in England and 89th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Jamke Cheema, Pakistan
• 백운동, North Korea
• Krasnodon, Ukraine
• Al Qatan, Yemen
• Jogapatti, India
• Cortazar, México

In new street additions, Royal Tunbridge Wells built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Jamke Cheema fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Al Qatan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Royal Tunbridge Wells became progressively more disconnected, while Jamke Cheema fluctuated in connectivity and Al Qatan became progressively more disconnected. Royal Tunbridge Wells and Jamke Cheema have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.