Jogīkuti 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 Jogīkuti plotted against West and Nepal. While West and Nepal both rose steadily, Jogīkuti's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Jogīkuti's incremental SNDi rose from 2.71 to 3.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Jogīkuti ranked 1st out of 4 cities in West and 6th out of 22 in Nepal as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Gende Woin, Ethiopia
• Al-Qa'im, Iraq
• Albany, United States
• Pithapuram, India
• Lwebo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Jinxi, China

In new street additions, Jogīkuti and Gende Woin both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Pithapuram built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Jogīkuti and Gende Woin both became progressively more disconnected, while Pithapuram became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Jogīkuti and Gende Woin have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.