Haveri 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 Haveri plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Haveri 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, Haveri's incremental SNDi fell from 3.26 to 3.24 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Haveri ranked 52nd out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 552nd 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?

• Dalkola, India
• Jia, China
• Tacheng, China
• Shahrud, Iran
• Idi-Iroko, Nigeria
• Göttingen, Germany

In new street additions, Haveri built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Dalkola built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Shahrud built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Haveri and Dalkola both became progressively more disconnected, while Shahrud became progressively more connected. Notably, Haveri had a more connected network than Shahrud in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.