Sihora 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 Sihora plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sihora peaked 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, Sihora's incremental SNDi fell from 1.97 to 0.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sihora ranked 9th out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 104th 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?

• Grufes Sector de Mujere, Guatemala
• Mithapur, India
• Mao, Dominican Republic
• Huade, China
• Jyväskylä, Finland
• Chachaura-Binaganj, India

In new street additions, Sihora built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Grufes Sector de Mujere fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Huade built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Sihora grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Grufes Sector de Mujere fluctuated in connectivity and Huade grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.