Kankiya 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 Kankiya plotted against Katsina and Nigeria. While Katsina and Nigeria both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Kankiya's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Kankiya's incremental SNDi rose from 2.64 to 3.39 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kankiya ranked 12th out of 15 cities in Katsina and 112th out of 422 in Nigeria as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Karjat, India
• Chengannur, India
• Talesh, Iran
• Maygyr, Uzbekistan
• Hengshan, China
• Lar, India

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