বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath in context: Street-network sprawl trends
bishbnaath - Biswanath in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath plotted against Sylhet and Bangladesh. The SNDi of new construction in বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Sylhet which rose steadily and Bangladesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath's incremental SNDi fell from 5.09 to 4.45 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath ranked 6th out of 24 cities in Sylhet and 64th out of 234 in Bangladesh as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.45
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 27th of 234
- Rank in Sylhet
- 5th of 24
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.8
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 64th of 234
- Rank in Sylhet
- 6th of 24
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Darwha, India
- Kafue, Zambia
- Fengqiao, China
- Abu Kamal, Syria
- Silay, Philippines
- Balipara, Bangladesh
In new street additions, বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Darwha built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Abu Kamal built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Darwha grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Abu Kamal became progressively more disconnected. বিশ্বনাথ - Biswanath and Darwha have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.