Chhatrapur 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 Chhatrapur plotted against Odisha and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chhatrapur was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Odisha which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chhatrapur's incremental SNDi rose from 5.08 to 6.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chhatrapur ranked 48th out of 58 cities in Odisha and 1543rd 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?

• Vihiga, Kenya
• Qixian, China
• Subotica, Serbia
• Antetezambaro, Madagascar
• Ambaji, India
• Samalkha, India

While Vihiga and Antetezambaro both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Chhatrapur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Chhatrapur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Vihiga became progressively more disconnected and Antetezambaro grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Chhatrapur had a more sprawly network than Antetezambaro in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.