Landi Kotal 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 Landi Kotal plotted against Federally Administered Tribal Ar and Pakistan. While Federally Administered Tribal Ar and Pakistan both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Landi Kotal's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Landi Kotal's incremental SNDi rose from 2.7 to 7.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Landi Kotal ranked 3rd out of 8 cities in Federally Administered Tribal Ar and 231st out of 292 in Pakistan as of 2020.

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

What about similarly populated cities?

• Negara, Indonesia
• Pingyuan, China
• Andria, Italy
• Qabilat alturki, Libya
• Haringhata, India
• Faya-Largeau, Chad

In new street additions, Landi Kotal fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Negara built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Qabilat alturki built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Negara and Qabilat alturki both became progressively more disconnected, while Landi Kotal fluctuated in connectivity. Notably, Landi Kotal had a more sprawly network than Qabilat alturki in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.