Gondal 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 Gondal plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gondal rose steadily, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gondal's incremental SNDi rose from 3.14 to 4.14 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gondal ranked 22nd out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 377th 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?

• Livorno, Italy
• Chopda, India
• Ruwa, Zimbabwe
• Severodvinsk, Russia
• Mathbarer Char, Bangladesh
• Ghatkesar, India

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