Bhadravathi 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 Bhadravathi plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bhadravathi 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, Bhadravathi's incremental SNDi rose from 2.97 to 6.29 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhadravathi ranked 14th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 190th 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?

• Koyilandy, India
• Dashoguz, Turkmenistan
• Dourados, Brazil
• Blitta-Gare, Togo
• Iriga, Philippines
• Melandaha, Bangladesh

While Koyilandy and Blitta-Gare both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, Bhadravathi built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Koyilandy and Blitta-Gare both became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Bhadravathi became progressively more disconnected. Bhadravathi and Blitta-Gare have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.