Taki in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Taki in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Taki plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Taki's incremental SNDi rose from 5.55 to 6.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Taki ranked 108th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1684th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.59
- Rank in India
- 1508th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 84th of 140
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.92
- Rank in India
- 1684th of 1868
- Rank in West Bengal
- 108th of 140
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Buynaksk, Russia
- Rimin Daddo, Nigeria
- Charkhai, Bangladesh
- Umunede, Nigeria
- Quanzhou, China
- Jianshi, China
In new street additions, Taki fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Buynaksk built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Umunede built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Taki and Umunede both became progressively more disconnected, while Buynaksk grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved.