Gurdaspur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Gurdaspur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Gurdaspur plotted against Punjab and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gurdaspur rose steadily, compared to Punjab which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gurdaspur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.48 to 5.17 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gurdaspur ranked 37th out of 41 cities in Punjab and 1327th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.17
- Rank in India
- 1101st of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 35th of 41
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.53
- Rank in India
- 1327th of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 37th of 41
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
- Sarasota, United States
- Sitāpur, Nepal
- Lumding, India
- Củ Chi, Vietnam
- Rustenburg, South Africa
Gurdaspur, San Francisco de Macorís, and Lumding all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Notably, Gurdaspur had a more connected network than Lumding in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.