Navapur 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 Navapur plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Navapur peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Navapur's incremental SNDi fell from 2.35 to 1.95 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Navapur ranked 25th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 137th 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?

• Manjeshwar, India
• Elda, Spain
• Balipara, Bangladesh
• Arzew, Algeria
• Huacheng, China
• Pavia, Italy

In new street additions, Navapur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Manjeshwar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Arzew built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Navapur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Manjeshwar became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Arzew grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Navapur and Arzew have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.