Gaibandha in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gaibandha in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gaibandha plotted against Rangpur and Bangladesh. The SNDi of new construction in Gaibandha rose steadily, compared to Rangpur which rose steadily and Bangladesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gaibandha's incremental SNDi rose from 6.0 to 7.69 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gaibandha ranked 12th out of 30 cities in Rangpur and 70th out of 234 in Bangladesh as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.69
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 111th of 234
- Rank in Rangpur
- 19th of 30
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.0
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 70th of 234
- Rank in Rangpur
- 12th of 30
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir
- Ipatinga, Brazil
- Enping, China
- Dumai, Indonesia
- Hazro, Pakistan
In new street additions, Gaibandha built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Ivano-Frankivsk fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Enping built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Gaibandha had a more connected network than Ivano-Frankivsk in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.