Nandura 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 Nandura plotted against Maharashtra and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Nandura's incremental SNDi rose from 4.11 to 4.8 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nandura ranked 119th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 948th 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?

• Xinhe, China
• Pengshan, China
• Dinga, Pakistan
• Shuangluan, China
• Rahad al Bardi, Sudan
• Bhinmal, India

In new street additions, Nandura fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Xinhe built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Shuangluan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Nandura became progressively more disconnected, while Xinhe grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Shuangluan grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Nandura had a more connected network than Shuangluan in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.