Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar 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 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar 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, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar's incremental SNDi rose from 3.63 to 4.15 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar ranked 89th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 668th 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?

• Datong, China
• Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Jilin City, China
• Asuncion, Paraguay
• Tijuana, México
• Pretoria, South Africa

In new street additions, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Asuncion both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Datong built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Asuncion both became progressively more disconnected, while Datong grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar had a more connected network than Datong in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.