Carora 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 Carora plotted against Lara and Venezuela. While Lara and Venezuela both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Carora's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Carora's incremental SNDi rose from 2.53 to 3.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Carora ranked 2nd out of 7 cities in Lara and 6th 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?

• Muara Bungo, Indonesia
• Diaobingshan, China
• Hengzhou, China
• Bisalpur, India
• Margao, India
• Medinipur, India

In new street additions, Carora fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Muara Bungo built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Bisalpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Carora and Muara Bungo both became progressively more disconnected, while Bisalpur fluctuated in connectivity. Carora and Muara Bungo have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.