Rabwah 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 Rabwah plotted against Punjab and Pakistan. The SNDi of new construction in Rabwah peaked in 1991-2005, compared to Punjab which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Pakistan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Rabwah's incremental SNDi fell from 3.6 to 3.24 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Rabwah ranked 14th out of 146 cities in Punjab and 27th 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?

• Skikda, Algeria
• Bishan, China
• Dunhua, China
• Wichita, United States
• Lincoln, United States
• Kiel, Germany

While Skikda and Wichita both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Rabwah built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Rabwah and Wichita have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.