Korutla 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 Korutla plotted against Telangana and India. While Telangana and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Korutla's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Korutla's incremental SNDi rose from 4.22 to 4.37 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Korutla ranked 44th out of 47 cities in Telangana and 819th 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?

• Harqin Zuoyi, China
• Terrebonne, Canada
• Gong, China
• Luziânia, Brazil
• Nuzvid, India
• Kalisz, Poland

In new street additions, Korutla and Luziânia both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Harqin Zuoyi built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Korutla and Luziânia both became progressively more disconnected, while Harqin Zuoyi grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Korutla had a more connected network than Harqin Zuoyi in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.