Mancherial 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 Mancherial plotted against Telangana and India. The SNDi of new construction in Mancherial was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Telangana which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Mancherial's incremental SNDi rose from 3.21 to 3.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mancherial ranked 40th out of 47 cities in Telangana and 654th 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?

• Sullana, Peru
• Chitrakoot Dham, India
• Kasumbalesa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Fukushima, Japan
• Divinópolis, Brazil
• Gandhinagar, India

In new street additions, Mancherial built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Sullana fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Fukushima built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Looking at the full network, Sullana and Fukushima both grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Mancherial became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Mancherial and Fukushima have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.