Tamaca in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Tamaca in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tamaca plotted against Lara and Venezuela. While Lara and Venezuela both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Tamaca's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Tamaca's incremental SNDi rose from 4.05 to 5.42 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tamaca ranked 6th out of 7 cities in Lara and 45th out of 70 in Venezuela as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.42
- Rank in Venezuela
- 44th of 70
- Rank in Lara
- 4th of 7
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.24
- Rank in Venezuela
- 45th of 70
- Rank in Lara
- 6th of 7
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Tamaca fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hanshou built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Zichang built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Tamaca had a more sprawly network than Zichang in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.