Rajpipla 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 Rajpipla plotted against Gujarat and India. While Gujarat and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Rajpipla's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Rajpipla's incremental SNDi rose from 2.24 to 4.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rajpipla ranked 13th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 240th 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?

• Banjarsari, Indonesia
• Dayao, China
• Pakhtaobod, Uzbekistan
• Klagenfurt, Austria
• Kadoma, Zimbabwe
• Ilhéus, Brazil

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