Toruń in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Torun in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Toruń plotted against Kujawsko-Pomorskie and Poland. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Toruń's incremental SNDi rose from 1.94 to 2.33 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Toruń ranked 1st out of 5 cities in Kujawsko-Pomorskie and 3rd out of 63 in Poland as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.33
- Rank in Poland
- 6th of 63
- Rank in Kujawsko-Pomorskie
- 2nd of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.64
- Rank in Poland
- 3rd of 63
- Rank in Kujawsko-Pomorskie
- 1st of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Tokchon, North Korea
- Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Tunja, Colombia
- Jizhou, China
- Noapara, Bangladesh
- Zhengding, China
In new street additions, Tokchon and Jizhou both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Toruń built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Toruń became progressively more disconnected, while Tokchon grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Jizhou grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.