Phagwara 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 Phagwara plotted against Punjab and India. While Punjab and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Phagwara's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Phagwara's incremental SNDi rose from 4.23 to 4.93 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Phagwara ranked 33rd out of 41 cities in Punjab and 1135th 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?

• Pinar del Rio, Cuba
• Ленинский, Russia
• Gitega, Burundi
• Shenhu, China
• Dhenkanal, India
• Heraklion, Greece

In new street additions, Phagwara fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Pinar del Rio built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Shenhu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Phagwara and Pinar del Rio both became progressively more disconnected, while Shenhu became progressively more connected. Phagwara and Shenhu have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.