Gondia in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gondia in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gondia plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gondia 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, Gondia's incremental SNDi rose from 3.43 to 4.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gondia ranked 84th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 587th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.79
- Rank in India
- 938th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 112th of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.21
- Rank in India
- 587th of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 84th of 157
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Gold Coast, Australia
- Kombolcha, Ethiopia
- Ninghai County, China
- Singaraja, Indonesia
- Kunduz, Afghanistan
- Huairou, China
In new street additions, Gondia and Singaraja both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Gold Coast built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Gondia and Singaraja both became progressively more disconnected, while Gold Coast grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Gondia and Gold Coast have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.