Kaghaznagar in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kaghaznagar in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kaghaznagar plotted against Telangana and India. While Telangana and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Kaghaznagar's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Kaghaznagar's incremental SNDi rose from 2.87 to 4.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kaghaznagar ranked 33rd out of 47 cities in Telangana and 515th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.3
- Rank in India
- 708th of 1868
- Rank in Telangana
- 41st of 47
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.09
- Rank in India
- 515th of 1868
- Rank in Telangana
- 33rd of 47
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Kaghaznagar and Ikot Aba both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Almora built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.