Palwancha 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 Palwancha plotted against Telangana and India. While Telangana and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Palwancha's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Palwancha's incremental SNDi rose from 3.79 to 5.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Palwancha ranked 46th out of 47 cities in Telangana and 1019th 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?

• Sévaré, Mali
• 石上村, China
• Xiejiazhuang, China
• Malindi, Kenya
• Igbo Ora, Nigeria
• Phùng, Vietnam

In new street additions, Palwancha fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Sévaré built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Malindi built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Palwancha and Malindi both became progressively more disconnected, while Sévaré became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Palwancha and Sévaré have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.