Haria Hossainpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Haria Hossainpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Haria Hossainpur plotted against Chittagong and Bangladesh. While Chittagong and Bangladesh both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Haria Hossainpur's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Haria Hossainpur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.51 to 4.21 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Haria Hossainpur ranked 7th out of 44 cities in Chittagong and 31st out of 234 in Bangladesh as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.21
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 19th of 234
- Rank in Chittagong
- 2nd of 44
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.84
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 31st of 234
- Rank in Chittagong
- 7th of 44
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Shilin, China
- Enarotali, Indonesia
- Ugbokolo, Nigeria
- Ciudad Mante, México
- Sattur, India
- Unsan, North Korea
In new street additions, Haria Hossainpur and Ciudad Mante both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Shilin built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Haria Hossainpur fluctuated in connectivity, while Shilin grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Ciudad Mante became progressively more disconnected. Haria Hossainpur and Shilin have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.