Daman 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 Daman plotted against Daman and Diu and India. The SNDi of new construction in Daman rose steadily, compared to Daman and Diu which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Daman's incremental SNDi rose from 3.82 to 6.04 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Daman ranked 2nd out of 2 cities in Daman and Diu and 861st 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?

• Soroti, Uganda
• Sugözü, Turkey
• Bili, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Livny, Russia
• Khushkhera, India
• Mayahi, Niger

In new street additions, Daman and Livny both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Soroti built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Daman and Livny both became progressively more disconnected, while Soroti became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Daman and Soroti have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.