Majri in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Majri in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Majri plotted against Punjab and India. While Punjab and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Majri's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Majri's incremental SNDi rose from 3.66 to 4.2 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Majri ranked 18th out of 41 cities in Punjab and 711th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.2
- Rank in India
- 671st of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 23rd of 41
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.42
- Rank in India
- 711th of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 18th of 41
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Meherpur, Bangladesh
- Bako, Ethiopia
- Jamakhandi, India
- Chenwang, China
- Xing'an, China
- Gwādar, Pakistan
In new street additions, Majri and Meherpur both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Chenwang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Majri and Meherpur both became progressively more disconnected, while Chenwang grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.