Chandrakona 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 Chandrakona plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Chandrakona rose steadily, compared to West Bengal which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chandrakona's incremental SNDi rose from 4.54 to 7.25 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chandrakona ranked 40th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1008th 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?

• Ceylanpınar, Turkey
• Batatais, Brazil
• Kanye, Botswana
• Taibe, Palestine
• Chapra, India
• Kyolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

In new street additions, Chandrakona and Taibe both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Ceylanpınar built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Chandrakona and Taibe both became progressively more disconnected, while Ceylanpınar became progressively more connected. Chandrakona and Ceylanpınar have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.