Shahbazpur 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 Shahbazpur plotted against Sylhet and Bangladesh. The SNDi of new construction in Shahbazpur rose steadily, compared to Sylhet which rose steadily and Bangladesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Shahbazpur's incremental SNDi rose from 8.01 to 10.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shahbazpur ranked 16th out of 24 cities in Sylhet as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Digri, Pakistan
• Sant Andreu de la Barca, Spain
• Pafos, Cyprus
• Sambas, Indonesia
• Sohma, India
• Amaseri, Nigeria

While Digri and Sambas both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Shahbazpur built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Shahbazpur became progressively more disconnected, while Digri became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Sambas became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Shahbazpur and Digri have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.