Tanuku in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Tanuku in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Tanuku plotted against Andhra Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Tanuku rose steadily, 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, Tanuku's incremental SNDi rose from 3.84 to 4.58 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tanuku ranked 61st out of 91 cities in Andhra Pradesh and 841st out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.58
- Rank in India
- 841st of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 54th of 91
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.63
- Rank in India
- 841st of 1868
- Rank in Andhra Pradesh
- 61st of 91
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Mohmadi, India
- Dharmavaram, India
- Bagaha, India
- Shakiso, Ethiopia
- Devsar, Jammu and Kashmir
- Hwado, South Korea
In new street additions, Tanuku and Shakiso both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Mohmadi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Tanuku and Shakiso have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.