Ahwa 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 Ahwa plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Ahwa rose steadily, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Ahwa's incremental SNDi rose from 5.29 to 5.72 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ahwa ranked 81st out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 1505th 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?

• Bender, Moldova
• Kinwat, India
• Shahbazpur, Bangladesh
• Teknaf, Bangladesh
• Nanjiang County, China
• Rumonge, Burundi

In new street additions, Ahwa built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Bender built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Teknaf built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Ahwa and Teknaf both became progressively more disconnected, while Bender became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Ahwa had a more connected network than Teknaf in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.