Cao Lãnh in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Cao Lanh in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Cao Lãnh plotted against Đồng Tháp and Vietnam. While Đồng Tháp and Vietnam both rose steadily, Cao Lãnh's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Cao Lãnh's incremental SNDi rose from 3.16 to 4.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Cao Lãnh ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Đồng Tháp and 24th out of 126 in Vietnam as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.43
- Rank in Vietnam
- 53rd of 126
- Rank in Đồng Tháp
- 1st of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.32
- Rank in Vietnam
- 24th of 126
- Rank in Đồng Tháp
- 1st of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Dongcun, China
- Gaochun, China
- Anand Nagar, India
- Yutian, China
- Irinjalakuda, India
- Touggourt, Algeria
In new street additions, Cao Lãnh built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Dongcun built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Yutian built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Cao Lãnh and Dongcun both became progressively more disconnected, while Yutian became progressively more connected. Notably, Cao Lãnh had a more connected network than Yutian in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.