Mardan in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Mardan in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Mardan plotted against Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan. The SNDi of new construction in Mardan was at its lowest in 1991-2005, 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, Mardan's incremental SNDi rose from 4.42 to 5.06 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mardan ranked 22nd out of 67 cities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 205th out of 292 in Pakistan as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 5.06
- Rank in Pakistan
- 170th of 292
- Rank in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- 14th of 67
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 4.63
- Rank in Pakistan
- 205th of 292
- Rank in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- 22nd of 67
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Sargodha, Pakistan
- Warri, Nigeria
- Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- Tiruppur, India
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Kigali, Rwanda
In new street additions, Sargodha and Tiruppur both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Mardan built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. Looking at the full network, Sargodha and Tiruppur both became progressively more disconnected, while Mardan became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Mardan and Tiruppur have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.