Majalgaon 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 Majalgaon plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Majalgaon 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, Majalgaon's incremental SNDi rose from 3.72 to 4.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Majalgaon ranked 71st out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 437th 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?

• Prizren, Kosovo
• Sakaka, Saudi Arabia
• Nazran, Russia
• Xianjiang, China
• Bapatla, India
• Blouberg Rise, South Africa

In new street additions, Majalgaon and Prizren both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Xianjiang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Majalgaon and Prizren both became progressively more disconnected, while Xianjiang grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Majalgaon and Prizren have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.