Bhuj 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 Bhuj plotted against Gujarat and India. While Gujarat and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bhuj's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bhuj's incremental SNDi rose from 3.87 to 4.4 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhuj ranked 59th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 1038th 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?

• Jiuquan, China
• Kabwe, Zambia
• Qionglai, China
• Jaffna, Sri Lanka
• Oviedo / Uviéu, Spain
• Haarlem, Netherlands

In new street additions, Bhuj fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Jiuquan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Jaffna built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Bhuj had a more connected network than Jiuquan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.