Chandur Bazar 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 Chandur Bazar plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chandur Bazar rose steadily, 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, Chandur Bazar's incremental SNDi rose from 2.76 to 3.42 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chandur Bazar ranked 46th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 242nd 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?

• Poko, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Tiquisio, Colombia
• Kafr Al-Amir Abd Allah, Egypt
• Bikram, India
• Otavalo, Ecuador
• Zhudong, Taiwan

In new street additions, Chandur Bazar built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Poko built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Bikram built increasingly connected streets over time. For the full network, Chandur Bazar and Poko both became progressively more disconnected, while Bikram became progressively more connected. Chandur Bazar and Bikram have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.