Shahapura 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 Shahapura plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Shahapura was at its lowest in 1991-2005, 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, Shahapura's incremental SNDi rose from 2.28 to 5.21 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shahapura ranked 25th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 314th 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?

• Ergani, Turkey
• Xiongyue, China
• Yongshan, China
• Solan, India
• Nanzhao, China
• Melka Chireti, Ethiopia

While Ergani and Solan both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Shahapura built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Ergani and Solan both became progressively more disconnected, while Shahapura became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Notably, Shahapura had a more sprawly network than Solan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.