Sagara 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 Sagara plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sagara 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, Sagara's incremental SNDi rose from 2.57 to 3.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sagara ranked 21st out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 301st 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?

• Đại Nghĩa, Vietnam
• Chibinang, India
• Erdenet, Mongolia
• Paragominas, Brazil
• White Plains, United States
• Martínez de la Torre, México

In new street additions, Sagara built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Đại Nghĩa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Paragominas fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Sagara became progressively more disconnected, while Đại Nghĩa fluctuated in connectivity and Paragominas fluctuated in connectivity. Sagara and Paragominas have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.