Rupnagar in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Rupnagar in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Rupnagar plotted against Punjab and India. While Punjab and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Rupnagar's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Rupnagar's incremental SNDi rose from 4.46 to 5.23 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rupnagar ranked 39th out of 41 cities in Punjab and 1405th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.23
- Rank in India
- 1127th of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 37th of 41
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.73
- Rank in India
- 1405th of 1868
- Rank in Punjab
- 39th of 41
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Timbuktu, Mali
- Norrköping, Sweden
- General Roca, Argentina
- Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Tiznit, Morocco
- Sithana, India
In new street additions, Rupnagar and Timbuktu both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Stellenbosch built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Timbuktu and Stellenbosch both became progressively more disconnected, while Rupnagar fluctuated in connectivity. Rupnagar and Stellenbosch have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.