Nanjanagudu in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nanjanagudu in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nanjanagudu plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Nanjanagudu 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, Nanjanagudu's incremental SNDi rose from 2.71 to 6.16 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nanjanagudu ranked 32nd out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 383rd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.16
- Rank in India
- 1404th of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 81st of 96
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.8
- Rank in India
- 383rd of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 32nd of 96
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Geidam, Nigeria
- Neemuch, India
- Ar Ramtha, Jordan
- Attur, India
- Petit-Goâve, Haiti
- Sunchon, North Korea
In new street additions, Nanjanagudu and Attur both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Geidam fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Nanjanagudu and Attur both became progressively more disconnected, while Geidam fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Nanjanagudu had a more connected network than Geidam in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.