Chitral 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 Chitral plotted against Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan. The SNDi of new construction in Chitral was at its lowest in 1976-1990, compared to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Pakistan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Chitral's incremental SNDi rose from 6.26 to 8.24 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chitral ranked 45th out of 67 cities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 258th 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?

• Kuransarae, India
• Kislovodsk, Russia
• Weining, China
• Guangshui, China
• Al-Rumaitha, Iraq
• Innsbruck, Austria

In new street additions, Chitral built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Kuransarae fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Guangshui built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Chitral became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Kuransarae became progressively more connected and Guangshui grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Chitral had a more connected network than Kuransarae in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.