Sanawad 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 Sanawad plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Sanawad's incremental SNDi rose from 3.78 to 4.05 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sanawad ranked 55th out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 1041st 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?

• Doyogena, Ethiopia
• Junlian, China
• Kekri, India
• Abhaipur, India
• Venkatagiri, India
• Karak, Pakistan

In new street additions, Sanawad fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Doyogena built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Abhaipur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Sanawad fluctuated in connectivity, while Doyogena became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Abhaipur became progressively more disconnected. Sanawad and Doyogena have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.