Nowgaon in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Nowgaon in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Nowgaon plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Nowgaon rose steadily, 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, Nowgaon's incremental SNDi rose from 3.23 to 4.29 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nowgaon ranked 38th out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 757th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.29
- Rank in India
- 705th of 1868
- Rank in Madhya Pradesh
- 31st of 98
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.49
- Rank in India
- 757th of 1868
- Rank in Madhya Pradesh
- 38th of 98
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Tajimi, Japan
- Mandurah, Australia
- Monze, Zambia
- Roi Et, Thailand
- Stafford, United Kingdom
- Zhenning, China
Nowgaon, Tajimi, and Roi Et all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Nowgaon had a more connected network than Tajimi in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.