Gurudaspur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gurudaspur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gurudaspur plotted against Rajshahi and Bangladesh. The SNDi of new construction in Gurudaspur rose steadily, compared to Rajshahi which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Bangladesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gurudaspur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.38 to 8.82 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gurudaspur ranked 5th out of 37 cities in Rajshahi and 16th out of 234 in Bangladesh as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.82
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 129th of 234
- Rank in Rajshahi
- 14th of 37
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.17
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 16th of 234
- Rank in Rajshahi
- 5th of 37
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Moatize, Mozambique
- Taoyuan, China
- San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
- Itu, Brazil
- Akluj, India
- Alkalere, Nigeria
In new street additions, Gurudaspur and Itu both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Moatize fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Gurudaspur had a more connected network than Moatize in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.