Borsad 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 Borsad plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Borsad was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Borsad's incremental SNDi rose from 3.49 to 3.6 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Borsad ranked 24th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 419th 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?

• Heerlen, Netherlands
• Merca, Somalia
• Indio, United States
• eMalahleni, South Africa
• Vaddu, India
• Jhalokathi, Bangladesh

While Heerlen and eMalahleni both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Borsad built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Heerlen and eMalahleni both became progressively more disconnected, while Borsad became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Borsad and eMalahleni have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.