Maner 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 Maner plotted against Bihar and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Maner's incremental SNDi rose from 4.94 to 6.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Maner ranked 187th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1531st 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?

• The Woodlands, United States
• Dapaong, Togo
• Rabak, Sudan
• Coro, Venezuela
• Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia
• Onne, Nigeria

In new street additions, Maner fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while The Woodlands built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Coro built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, The Woodlands and Coro both became progressively more disconnected, while Maner fluctuated in connectivity. Maner and The Woodlands have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.