Pehowa 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 Pehowa plotted against Haryana and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Pehowa's incremental SNDi rose from 2.76 to 3.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pehowa ranked 7th out of 40 cities in Haryana and 385th 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?

• Phúc Yên, Vietnam
• Contramaestre, Cuba
• Lalmohan, Bangladesh
• Samitah, Saudi Arabia
• Tongxin, China
• Rubio, Venezuela

In new street additions, Pehowa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Phúc Yên built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Samitah built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Pehowa became progressively more disconnected, while Phúc Yên grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Samitah became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Notably, Pehowa had a more connected network than Samitah in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.