Pakaur 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 Pakaur plotted against Jharkhand and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Pakaur's incremental SNDi rose from 2.65 to 3.53 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pakaur ranked 10th out of 46 cities in Jharkhand and 333rd 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?

• Radom, Poland
• Betul, India
• Kotli, Azad Kashmir
• Ziway, Ethiopia
• Shuangcheng, China
• Baode, China

In new street additions, Pakaur and Ziway both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Radom built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Pakaur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Radom became progressively more disconnected and Ziway fluctuated in connectivity.