Gunnowal 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 Gunnowal plotted against Punjab and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gunnowal was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Punjab which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gunnowal's incremental SNDi rose from 4.61 to 4.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gunnowal ranked 35th out of 41 cities in Punjab and 1241st 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?

• Digos, Philippines
• Panyabungan, Indonesia
• Nautanwa, India
• Mauranipur, India
• Lae, Papua New Guinea
• Al Kifl, Iraq

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