Chitradurga 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 Chitradurga plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chitradurga peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Chitradurga's incremental SNDi fell from 3.37 to 2.85 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chitradurga ranked 36th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 428th 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?

• Isparta, Turkey
• Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
• Luoding, China
• Padang Sidempuan, Indonesia
• Gadag-Betageri, India
• Xingyang, China

In new street additions, Chitradurga built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Isparta fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Padang Sidempuan built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Isparta and Padang Sidempuan both became progressively more disconnected, while Chitradurga grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Chitradurga and Isparta have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.