Lalkuan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Lalkuan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Lalkuan plotted against Uttarakhand and India. While Uttarakhand and India both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Lalkuan's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Lalkuan's incremental SNDi rose from 5.94 to 6.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lalkuan ranked 17th out of 20 cities in Uttarakhand and 1716th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.25
- Rank in India
- 1430th of 1868
- Rank in Uttarakhand
- 16th of 20
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 6.18
- Rank in India
- 1716th of 1868
- Rank in Uttarakhand
- 17th of 20
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Cầu Giát, Vietnam
- Giingee, India
- Aranghata, India
- Longqiao, China
- Ningcheng, China
- Mechara, Ethiopia
In new street additions, Lalkuan and Cầu Giát both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Longqiao built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Lalkuan and Cầu Giát both fluctuated in connectivity, while Longqiao grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved.