Gangapur City 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 Gangapur City plotted against Rajasthan and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gangapur City followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Rajasthan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Gangapur City's incremental SNDi fell from 12.09 to 1.77 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gangapur City ranked 93rd out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 1781st 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?

• Deesa, India
• East London, South Africa
• Longchang, China
• Qamishli, Syria
• Padua, Italy
• Arkhangelsk, Russia

While Deesa and Qamishli both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Gangapur City fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Deesa and Qamishli both became progressively more disconnected, while Gangapur City fluctuated in connectivity. Gangapur City and Deesa have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.