Churachandpur 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 Churachandpur plotted against Manipur and India. The SNDi of new construction in Churachandpur rose steadily, compared to Manipur which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Churachandpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.22 to 7.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Churachandpur ranked 2nd out of 7 cities in Manipur and 693rd 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?

• Yirga Cheffe, Ethiopia
• Huaiyuan, China
• Al-Gamaleya, Egypt
• Embu, Kenya
• Yong'an, China
• Shunan, Japan

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