Tura 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 Tura plotted against Meghalaya and India. While Meghalaya and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Tura's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Tura's incremental SNDi rose from 3.92 to 9.09 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tura ranked 3rd out of 4 cities in Meghalaya and 1805th 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?

• Kalibo, Philippines
• Sabha, Libya
• Pandua, India
• Qinyang, China
• Lalibela, Ethiopia
• Sri Kalahasti, India

In new street additions, Tura and Qinyang both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kalibo built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Tura and Qinyang both fluctuated in connectivity, while Kalibo became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Tura had a more connected network than Kalibo in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.