Kundla 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 Kundla plotted against Gujarat and India. The SNDi of new construction in Kundla rose steadily, compared to Gujarat which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Kundla's incremental SNDi rose from 2.58 to 8.99 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kundla ranked 4th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 117th 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?

• Oleksandriia, Ukraine
• Chakdaha, India
• Birnin Kudu, Nigeria
• Hassi Bahbah, Algeria
• Phaltan, India
• Arapongas, Brazil

In new street additions, Kundla and Oleksandriia both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Hassi Bahbah fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Oleksandriia and Hassi Bahbah both became progressively more disconnected, while Kundla fluctuated in connectivity. Kundla and Oleksandriia have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.