Glen Burnie 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 Glen Burnie plotted against Maryland and United States. While Maryland and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Glen Burnie's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Glen Burnie's incremental SNDi fell from 7.05 to 6.38 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Glen Burnie ranked 4th out of 5 cities in Maryland and 310th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Kauriram, India
• Lüneburg, Germany
• Masallı, Azerbaijan
• Saint-André, Réunion
• Khrew, Jammu and Kashmir
• Polasara, India

In new street additions, Glen Burnie built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Kauriram fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Saint-André built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Glen Burnie became progressively more disconnected, while Kauriram grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Saint-André became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Glen Burnie and Kauriram have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.