Coonoor in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Coonoor in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Coonoor plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. The SNDi of new construction in Coonoor rose steadily, compared to Tamil Nadu which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Coonoor's incremental SNDi rose from 6.96 to 7.61 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Coonoor ranked 119th out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 1778th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 7.61
- Rank in India
- 1631st of 1868
- Rank in Tamil Nadu
- 115th of 121
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.93
- Rank in India
- 1778th of 1868
- Rank in Tamil Nadu
- 119th of 121
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Blackburn, United Kingdom
- Aruppukkottai, India
- Phalodi, India
- Bobai, China
- Kazanlı Mah., Turkey
- Huaxi, China
In new street additions, Coonoor built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Blackburn built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Bobai fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.