Narasaraopet 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 Narasaraopet plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Narasaraopet's incremental SNDi rose from 2.57 to 3.91 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Narasaraopet ranked 12th out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 265th 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?

• Mahuva, India
• Jhanjharpur, India
• San Cristóbal de las Casas, México
• Al Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia
• Xiangshan County, China
• Aït Melloul, Morocco

In new street additions, Narasaraopet fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Mahuva built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Al Hawiyah built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Narasaraopet and Mahuva both became progressively more disconnected, while Al Hawiyah became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Narasaraopet and Mahuva have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.