Medinipur 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 Medinipur plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Medinipur's incremental SNDi rose from 3.21 to 4.52 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Medinipur ranked 11th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 479th 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?

• Margao, India
• Bisalpur, India
• Carora, Venezuela
• Hualien, Taiwan
• Fengdu, China
• Akhaura, Bangladesh

While Margao and Hualien both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Medinipur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Medinipur and Hualien have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.