Manori 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 Manori plotted against Bihar and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Manori's incremental SNDi rose from 4.58 to 5.07 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Manori ranked 129th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1346th 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?

• Kalchini, India
• Ribeirão das Neves, Brazil
• Parcona, Peru
• Samba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Pucheng, China
• Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain

In new street additions, Manori fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kalchini fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Samba built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Manori became progressively more disconnected, while Kalchini fluctuated in connectivity and Samba became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Notably, Manori had a more connected network than Samba in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.