Pandharpur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Pandharpur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Pandharpur plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Pandharpur 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, Pandharpur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.7 to 5.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Pandharpur ranked 98th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 732nd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.23
- Rank in India
- 1123rd of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 126th of 157
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.45
- Rank in India
- 732nd of 1868
- Rank in Maharashtra
- 98th of 157
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
- Ghafurov, Tajikistan
- Lijiang, China
- Jagdalpur, India
- Faridpur, India
- Semapur, India
Pandharpur, Nakhon Si Thammarat, and Jagdalpur all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Pandharpur had a more connected network than Jagdalpur in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.