Bardhaman 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 Bardhaman plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Bardhaman's incremental SNDi rose from 4.14 to 5.49 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bardhaman ranked 46th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1061st 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?

• Linquan, China
• Maghagha, Egypt
• Pingtung City, Taiwan
• Yunfu, China
• Rantau Prapat, Indonesia
• Puerto Vallarta, México

In new street additions, Bardhaman fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Linquan built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Yunfu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Bardhaman became progressively more disconnected, while Linquan became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Yunfu grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Bardhaman and Yunfu have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.