Mahishadal 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 Mahishadal plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Mahishadal was at its lowest in 1991-2005, 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, Mahishadal's incremental SNDi rose from 3.22 to 3.85 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mahishadal ranked 20th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 712th 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?

• Guigang, China
• Silvassa, India
• Balrampur, India
• Yongzhou, China
• Acarigua, Venezuela
• Linqu, China

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