Chintamani in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Chintamani in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Chintamani plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chintamani 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, Chintamani's incremental SNDi rose from 3.06 to 6.67 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chintamani ranked 66th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 674th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.67
- Rank in India
- 1521st of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 87th of 96
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.37
- Rank in India
- 674th of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 66th of 96
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
Chintamani, Modasa, and Abu Huminus all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Chintamani had a more connected network than Abu Huminus in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.