Hyderabad in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Hyderabad in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Hyderabad plotted against Sindh and Pakistan. The SNDi of new construction in Hyderabad rose steadily, compared to Sindh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and Pakistan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Hyderabad's incremental SNDi rose from 3.67 to 4.11 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hyderabad ranked 19th out of 50 cities in Sindh and 61st out of 292 in Pakistan as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.11
- Rank in Pakistan
- 97th of 292
- Rank in Sindh
- 23rd of 50
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.16
- Rank in Pakistan
- 61st of 292
- Rank in Sindh
- 19th of 50
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Tunis, Tunisia
- Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Coyah, Guinea
- Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Mogadishu, Somalia
Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, and Coyah all built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street construction. The same pattern holds for the full street network. Hyderabad and Coyah have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.