Ballari in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Ballari in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Ballari plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Ballari 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, Ballari's incremental SNDi rose from 3.84 to 4.57 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ballari ranked 76th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 833rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.57
- Rank in India
- 834th of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 63rd of 96
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.61
- Rank in India
- 833rd of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 76th of 96
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Al-Fashir, Sudan
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- Otsu, Japan
- Djibouti, Djibouti
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In new street additions, Ballari built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Al-Fashir fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Otsu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Ballari and Al-Fashir both became progressively more disconnected, while Otsu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Ballari and Al-Fashir have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.