Shikaripura in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Shikaripura in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Shikaripura plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Shikaripura 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, Shikaripura's incremental SNDi rose from 2.65 to 3.88 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shikaripura ranked 16th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 210th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.88
- Rank in India
- 550th of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 45th of 96
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.37
- Rank in India
- 210th of 1868
- Rank in Karnataka
- 16th of 96
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Nyeri, Kenya
- Maluku, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Sakhi Sarwar, Pakistan
- Genet, Ethiopia
- Karatsu, Japan
- Rybnik, Poland
In new street additions, Shikaripura built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Nyeri built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Genet fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.