Laxmangarh 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 Laxmangarh plotted against Rajasthan and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Laxmangarh's incremental SNDi rose from 3.28 to 7.53 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Laxmangarh ranked 30th out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 261st 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?

• Alessandria, Italy
• Heyang, China
• Madaba, Egypt
• Ain Sefra, Algeria
• Sheraro, Ethiopia
• Guaíba, Brazil

In new street additions, Laxmangarh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Alessandria built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Ain Sefra built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Laxmangarh and Alessandria both became progressively more disconnected, while Ain Sefra became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Laxmangarh had a more connected network than Ain Sefra in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.