Siddhpur 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 Siddhpur plotted against Gujarat and India. While Gujarat and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Siddhpur's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Siddhpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.48 to 6.18 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Siddhpur ranked 70th out of 92 cities in Gujarat and 1363rd 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?

• Bandabad, Afghanistan
• Thanam, India
• Masbate City, Philippines
• Kovel, Ukraine
• Avilés, Spain
• Kaduqli, Sudan

In new street additions, Siddhpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Bandabad fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Kovel built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Siddhpur and Kovel both became progressively more disconnected, while Bandabad became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Siddhpur and Bandabad have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.