Bodinayakkanur 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 Bodinayakkanur plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. While Tamil Nadu and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Bodinayakkanur's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Bodinayakkanur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.29 to 5.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bodinayakkanur ranked 23rd out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 529th 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?

• Lishu, China
• Challakere, India
• Comitán, México
• Baneh, Iran
• Dompu, Indonesia
• Piedecuesta, Colombia

In new street additions, Bodinayakkanur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Lishu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Baneh built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Bodinayakkanur and Baneh both became progressively more disconnected, while Lishu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Bodinayakkanur and Lishu have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.