Dakshin Gopalnagar 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 Dakshin Gopalnagar plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Dakshin Gopalnagar peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Dakshin Gopalnagar's incremental SNDi fell from 10.73 to 8.89 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dakshin Gopalnagar ranked 131st out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1834th 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?

• Zuru, Nigeria
• Kolpino, Russia
• Pilsen, Czechia
• Olsztyn, Poland
• Ugep, Nigeria
• Jinchang, China

While Zuru and Olsztyn both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Dakshin Gopalnagar built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Zuru and Olsztyn both became progressively more disconnected, while Dakshin Gopalnagar grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Dakshin Gopalnagar and Zuru have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.