Angul in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Angul in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Angul plotted against Odisha and India. While Odisha and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Angul's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Angul's incremental SNDi rose from 2.42 to 2.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Angul ranked 6th out of 58 cities in Odisha and 234th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 2.74
- Rank in India
- 200th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 6th of 58
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.45
- Rank in India
- 234th of 1868
- Rank in Odisha
- 6th of 58
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- New Hope, United States
- Dongducheon, South Korea
- Lqliaa, Morocco
- Kabongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Yunyang, China
- Qinghe, China
Angul, New Hope, and Kabongo all fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street construction. For the full network, Angul and New Hope both became progressively more disconnected, while Kabongo became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Angul and Kabongo have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.