Tindivanam 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 Tindivanam plotted against Tamil Nadu and India. The SNDi of new construction in Tindivanam peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Tamil Nadu which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Tindivanam's incremental SNDi fell from 6.04 to 5.9 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Tindivanam ranked 113th out of 121 cities in Tamil Nadu and 1634th 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?

• Santa Rosa, United States
• kazaure, Nigeria
• Pupri, India
• Sénou, Mali
• Lincang, China
• Lázaro Cárdenas, México

In new street additions, Tindivanam built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Santa Rosa built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Sénou fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Tindivanam and Sénou both became progressively more disconnected, while Santa Rosa grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Tindivanam and Santa Rosa have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.