Greatwood 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 Greatwood plotted against Texas and United States. While Texas and United States both peaked in 1991-2005, Greatwood's new street additions peaked in 1991-2005. Most recently, Greatwood's incremental SNDi fell from 6.4 to 6.05 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Greatwood ranked 42nd out of 42 cities in Texas and 322nd 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?

• Gondola, Mozambique
• Abejukolo, Nigeria
• Ankazomborona, Madagascar
• Dagahaley Refugee Camp, Kenya
• Malmesbury, South Africa
• Tira, Israel

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