Pandharkawada 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 Pandharkawada plotted against Maharashtra and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Pandharkawada's incremental SNDi rose from 3.21 to 3.87 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pandharkawada ranked 92nd out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 690th 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?

• Thohoyandou, South Africa
• Cicheng, China
• Las Cruces, United States
• Nsioni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Phú Cường, Vietnam
• Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland

In new street additions, Pandharkawada fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Thohoyandou built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Nsioni built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Pandharkawada fluctuated in connectivity, while Thohoyandou became progressively more disconnected and Nsioni became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Notably, Pandharkawada had a more connected network than Thohoyandou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.