Nohar 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 Nohar plotted against Rajasthan and India. The SNDi of new construction in Nohar 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, Nohar's incremental SNDi rose from 2.19 to 4.22 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nohar ranked 24th out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 207th 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?

• Nkoranza, Ghana
• Linkou, China
• Magburaka, Sierra Leone
• Ogoja, Nigeria
• Zhaoping, China
• Ramenskoye, Russia

In new street additions, Nohar built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Nkoranza fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Ogoja built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Nohar became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards, while Nkoranza fluctuated in connectivity and Ogoja became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Nohar had a more sprawly network than Ogoja in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.