Manjeshwar 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 Manjeshwar plotted against Kerala and India. The SNDi of new construction in Manjeshwar followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Kerala which was at its lowest in 1976-1990 and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Manjeshwar's incremental SNDi fell from 6.46 to 6.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Manjeshwar ranked 38th out of 48 cities in Kerala and 1689th 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?

• Elda, Spain
• Balipara, Bangladesh
• Silay, Philippines
• Navapur, India
• Arzew, Algeria
• Huacheng, China

In new street additions, Manjeshwar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Elda fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Navapur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Manjeshwar became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Elda became progressively more disconnected and Navapur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.