Valle de La Pascua 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 Valle de La Pascua plotted against Guárico and Venezuela. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Valle de La Pascua's incremental SNDi rose from 2.21 to 3.13 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Valle de La Pascua ranked 1st out of 4 cities in Guárico and 7th out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Springfield, United States
• Stonebridge, United States
• Kandi, India
• Long Khánh, Vietnam
• Rajanpur, Pakistan
• Huacho, Peru

In new street additions, Valle de La Pascua fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Springfield built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Long Khánh built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Valle de La Pascua and Springfield both became progressively more disconnected, while Long Khánh became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Valle de La Pascua and Springfield have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.