Gadarwara 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 Gadarwara plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gadarwara was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Madhya Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gadarwara's incremental SNDi rose from 2.97 to 12.06 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gadarwara ranked 12th out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 196th 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?

• Ogden, United States
• Malkapur, India
• Umm Hajar, Chad
• Nazilli, Turkey
• Wates, Indonesia
• Chiplun, India

While Ogden and Nazilli both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Gadarwara built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Ogden and Nazilli both became progressively more disconnected, while Gadarwara became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Gadarwara and Nazilli have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.