Davanagere 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 Davanagere plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Davanagere peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Davanagere's incremental SNDi fell from 2.32 to 2.31 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Davanagere ranked 8th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 144th 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?

• Silchar, India
• Liaocheng, China
• Bauchi, Nigeria
• Ankang, China
• Al Ismailiya, Egypt
• Rampur, India

While Silchar and Ankang both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Davanagere built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Davanagere and Ankang have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.