Bagalkote 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 Bagalkote plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bagalkote rose steadily, compared to Karnataka which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bagalkote's incremental SNDi rose from 2.98 to 6.99 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bagalkote ranked 34th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 394th 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?

• Luquan, China
• São Sebastião do Paraíso, Brazil
• Tikapur, Nepal
• Nawa, Syria
• Xiangfu, China
• Chernogorsk, Russia

In new street additions, Bagalkote built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Luquan built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Nawa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Bagalkote became progressively more disconnected, while Luquan became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Nawa became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Bagalkote had a more connected network than Luquan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.