Mahbubnagar 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 Mahbubnagar plotted against Telangana and India. While Telangana and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Mahbubnagar's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Mahbubnagar's incremental SNDi rose from 2.47 to 3.27 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mahbubnagar ranked 16th out of 47 cities in Telangana and 346th 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?

• Ondjiva, Angola
• Morioka, Japan
• Wuzhong, China
• Karamay, China
• Luoding, China
• Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine

In new street additions, Mahbubnagar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Ondjiva built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Karamay built increasingly connected streets over time. For the full network, Mahbubnagar fluctuated in connectivity, while Ondjiva became progressively more disconnected and Karamay became progressively more connected. Notably, Mahbubnagar had a more sprawly network than Ondjiva in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.