Kaman 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 Kaman plotted against Rajasthan and India. The SNDi of new construction in Kaman was at its lowest in 1991-2005, 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, Kaman's incremental SNDi rose from 1.2 to 1.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kaman ranked 3rd out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 52nd 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?

• Ghaliya, Sudan
• Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia
• Bani Bakhit, Egypt
• Busia, Kenya
• Wulong, China
• Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

While Ghaliya and Busia both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Kaman built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Kaman became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Ghaliya fluctuated in connectivity and Busia became progressively more disconnected. Kaman and Ghaliya have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.