Chunarughat in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Chunarughat plotted against Sylhet and Bangladesh. The SNDi of new construction in Chunarughat rose steadily, compared to Sylhet which rose steadily and Bangladesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chunarughat's incremental SNDi rose from 10.75 to 11.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chunarughat ranked 21st out of 24 cities in Sylhet and 192nd out of 234 in Bangladesh as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Parbalpur, India
• Cai Lậy, Vietnam
• Jagdispur, India
• Jinping, China
• Saakow, Somalia
• Zaoqiang, China

In new street additions, Chunarughat built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Parbalpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Jinping built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Chunarughat became progressively more disconnected, while Parbalpur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Jinping grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Chunarughat had a more connected network than Parbalpur in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.