Kaliyaganj 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 Kaliyaganj plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Kaliyaganj's incremental SNDi rose from 3.58 to 5.71 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kaliyaganj ranked 41st out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1016th 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?

• Chettia, Algeria
• Minggang, China
• Yun, China
• Mahera, Sierra Leone
• Bumi Mulyo, Indonesia
• Wangjiang, China

While Chettia and Mahera both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Kaliyaganj fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Kaliyaganj fluctuated in connectivity, while Chettia grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Mahera became progressively more disconnected. Kaliyaganj and Chettia have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.