Anakapalle 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 Anakapalle plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Anakapalle's incremental SNDi rose from 4.89 to 6.1 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Anakapalle ranked 85th out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 1311th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• АЗС, Russia
• Sibiu, Romania
• Balakovo, Russia
• Nagda, India
• Tagbilaran, Philippines
• Mihtarlam, Afghanistan

In new street additions, Anakapalle fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while АЗС built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Nagda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Anakapalle and АЗС both became progressively more disconnected, while Nagda became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Anakapalle had a more connected network than Nagda in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.