Dhone in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dhone in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dhone plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Dhone followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Andhra Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Dhone's incremental SNDi fell from 5.68 to 3.22 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dhone ranked 88th out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 1519th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.22
- Rank in India
- 306th of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 13th of 91
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.08
- Rank in India
- 1519th of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 88th of 91
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Ain Turk, Algeria
- El Carmen, Ecuador
- Gamawa, Nigeria
- Ngluwar, Indonesia
- Chengalpattu, India
- Bhimber Gali, Jammu and Kashmir
In new street additions, Dhone fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Ain Turk fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Ngluwar built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Ain Turk and Ngluwar both became progressively more disconnected, while Dhone fluctuated in connectivity. Dhone and Ngluwar have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.