Mehkar 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 Mehkar plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Mehkar 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, Mehkar's incremental SNDi rose from 2.56 to 3.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mehkar ranked 55th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 302nd 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?

• Kawthaung, Myanmar
• Meiganga, Cameroon
• Rada`, Yemen
• Syracuse, Italy
• Erlangen, Germany
• Otaru, Japan

Mehkar, Kawthaung, and Syracuse all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Mehkar and Syracuse have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.