Shakar Garh in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Shakar Garh in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Shakar Garh plotted against Punjab and Pakistan. The SNDi of new construction in Shakar Garh followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Shakar Garh's incremental SNDi fell from 5.27 to 4.68 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Shakar Garh ranked 128th out of 146 cities in Punjab and 227th out of 292 in Pakistan as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.68
- Rank in Pakistan
- 146th of 292
- Rank in Punjab
- 91st of 146
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.05
- Rank in Pakistan
- 227th of 292
- Rank in Punjab
- 128th of 146
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Shakar Garh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while En Nahud fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Sumy built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, En Nahud and Sumy both became progressively more disconnected, while Shakar Garh fluctuated in connectivity.