Blantyre in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Blantyre in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Blantyre plotted against Scotland and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Blantyre's incremental SNDi fell from 6.12 to 6.1 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Blantyre ranked 10th out of 11 cities in Scotland and 116th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.1
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 137th of 143
- Rank in Scotland
- 11th of 11
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.04
- Rank in United Kingdom
- 116th of 143
- Rank in Scotland
- 10th of 11
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Tubarão, Brazil
- Fanshi, China
- Montelíbano, Colombia
- Asbury Park, United States
- Qalat Saleh, Iraq
- Itajubá, Brazil
In new street additions, Blantyre built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Tubarão built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Asbury Park fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.