Vijayapura 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 Vijayapura plotted against Karnataka and India. The SNDi of new construction in Vijayapura 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, Vijayapura's incremental SNDi rose from 2.99 to 3.98 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Vijayapura ranked 44th out of 96 cities in Karnataka and 503rd 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?

• Bazhong City, China
• Purwakarta, Indonesia
• Buram, Sudan
• Jalalabad, Afghanistan
• Latakia, Syria
• Concepción, Chile

In new street additions, Vijayapura built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Bazhong City built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Jalalabad built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Vijayapura became progressively more disconnected, while Bazhong City became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Jalalabad became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards.