Malegaon 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 Malegaon plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Malegaon 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, Malegaon's incremental SNDi rose from 2.59 to 3.12 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Malegaon ranked 52nd out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 283rd 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?

• Suzhou, China
• Dighwara, India
• Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
• Chifeng, China
• Panipat, India
• Cabinda, Angola

While Suzhou and Chifeng both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, Malegaon built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Malegaon became progressively more disconnected, while Suzhou grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Chifeng grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Malegaon had a more connected network than Suzhou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.