Andipatti Jakkampatty 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 Andipatti Jakkampatty plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. The SNDi of new construction in Andipatti Jakkampatty was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Tamil Nadu which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Andipatti Jakkampatty's incremental SNDi rose from 5.03 to 6.13 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Andipatti Jakkampatty ranked 97th out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 1244th 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?

• Lubuk Sikaping, Indonesia
• Jidong, China
• Bognor Regis, United Kingdom
• Los Reyes Acozac, México
• Gießen, Germany
• Vila Jardim, Brazil

While Lubuk Sikaping and Los Reyes Acozac both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Andipatti Jakkampatty built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Lubuk Sikaping and Los Reyes Acozac both became progressively more disconnected, while Andipatti Jakkampatty became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Andipatti Jakkampatty and Lubuk Sikaping have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.