Madhugiri 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 Madhugiri plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Madhugiri 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, Madhugiri's incremental SNDi rose from 4.21 to 4.61 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Madhugiri ranked 23rd out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 305th 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?

• Paracatu, Brazil
• Bununu Dass, Nigeria
• Bebedouro, Brazil
• Arinodai, Japan
• Huoshan, China
• Montreux, Switzerland

In new street additions, Madhugiri built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Paracatu built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Arinodai fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Madhugiri and Arinodai both became progressively more disconnected, while Paracatu became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Madhugiri had a more connected network than Paracatu in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.