Medininagar 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 Medininagar plotted against Jharkhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Medininagar rose steadily, compared to Jharkhand which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Medininagar's incremental SNDi rose from 4.52 to 7.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Medininagar ranked 29th out of 46 cities in Jharkhand and 1125th 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?

• Lashio, Myanmar
• Renqiu, China
• Al-Santa, Egypt
• Changle, China
• Madadeni, South Africa
• Linqing, China

In new street additions, Medininagar built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Lashio built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Changle built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Medininagar became progressively more disconnected, while Lashio grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Changle became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Medininagar and Changle have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.