Chinnalapatti in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Chinnalapatti in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Chinnalapatti plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. While Tamil Nadu and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Chinnalapatti's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chinnalapatti's incremental SNDi rose from 3.19 to 4.2 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chinnalapatti ranked 47th out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 815th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.2
- Rank in India
- 674th of 1868
- Rank in Tamil Nadu
- 29th of 121
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.59
- Rank in India
- 815th of 1868
- Rank in Tamil Nadu
- 47th of 121
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Abyūhā, Egypt
- Xiaodong, China
- Candeias, Brazil
- Chengjiang, China
- Zamość, Poland
- Badokwa, Central African Republic
In new street additions, Chinnalapatti and Abyūhā both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Chengjiang built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Chinnalapatti fluctuated in connectivity, while Abyūhā became progressively more disconnected and Chengjiang grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved.