Sreemangal in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sreemangal in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sreemangal plotted against Sylhet and Bangladesh. The SNDi of new construction in Sreemangal rose steadily, compared to Sylhet which rose steadily and Bangladesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sreemangal's incremental SNDi rose from 8.0 to 9.37 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sreemangal ranked 5th out of 24 cities in Sylhet and 63rd out of 234 in Bangladesh as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 9.37
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 138th of 234
- Rank in Sylhet
- 16th of 24
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.69
- Rank in Bangladesh
- 63rd of 234
- Rank in Sylhet
- 5th of 24
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Sreemangal built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Bojnurd built increasingly connected streets over time and Kankan fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Sreemangal and Kankan both became progressively more disconnected, while Bojnurd became progressively more connected. Sreemangal and Bojnurd have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.