Sendhwa 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 Sendhwa plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sendhwa followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Sendhwa's incremental SNDi fell from 2.81 to 2.54 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sendhwa ranked 21st out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 453rd 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?

• Kamarkuchi, India
• Rushan, China
• Robertsganj, India
• Rio Claro, Brazil
• Shuanglong, China
• Nanxun, China

In new street additions, Sendhwa and Kamarkuchi both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Rio Claro built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Sendhwa became progressively more connected, while Kamarkuchi became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Rio Claro became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Sendhwa had a more sprawly network than Kamarkuchi in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.