San Cristobal 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 San Cristobal plotted against Táchira and Venezuela. The SNDi of new construction in San Cristobal rose steadily, compared to Táchira which peaked in 1976-1990 and Venezuela which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, San Cristobal's incremental SNDi rose from 6.83 to 8.2 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, San Cristobal ranked 4th out of 4 cities in Táchira and 61st 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?

• Geneva, Switzerland
• Pohang-si, South Korea
• Chengde, China
• Bhind, India
• Daqing, China
• Oita, Japan

In new street additions, San Cristobal and Bhind both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Geneva built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. San Cristobal and Geneva have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.