Mahuawa 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 Mahuawa plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Mahuawa followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Bihar which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Mahuawa's incremental SNDi fell from 7.57 to 6.62 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mahuawa ranked 222nd out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1651st 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?

• Diégonéfla, Côte d'Ivoire
• Ruyuan, China
• Obiozara, Nigeria
• Magagindoke, Nigeria
• Coari, Brazil
• Mussende, Angola

In new street additions, Mahuawa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Diégonéfla built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Magagindoke built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Mahuawa became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Diégonéfla became progressively more disconnected and Magagindoke grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved.