Bhokar 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 Bhokar plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bhokar was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Maharashtra which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bhokar's incremental SNDi rose from 3.74 to 4.63 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bhokar ranked 110th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 828th 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?

• Aschaffenburg, Germany
• Luxi, China
• Novy Urengoy, Russia
• Leskovac, Serbia
• Al Khidhr, Iraq
• Barra Bonita, Brazil

While Aschaffenburg and Leskovac both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Bhokar built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Aschaffenburg and Leskovac both became progressively more disconnected, while Bhokar became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Bhokar and Leskovac have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.