Asansol in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Asansol in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Asansol plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Asansol's incremental SNDi rose from 4.05 to 5.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Asansol ranked 36th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 987th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.25
- Rank in India
- 1134th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 35th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.87
- Rank in India
- 987th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 36th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Nanning, China
- P'yŏngyang, North Korea
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Yogyakarta, Indonesia
In new street additions, Asansol and Guatemala City both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Kyiv built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Asansol and Guatemala City have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.