Masrakh 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 Masrakh plotted against Bihar and India. The SNDi of new construction in Masrakh followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Bihar which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Masrakh's incremental SNDi fell from 4.59 to 4.4 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Masrakh ranked 106th out of 264 cities in Bihar and 1237th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Rewari, India
• Vrindavan, India
• Fungurume, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Cuautla, México
• Tuluá, Colombia
• Nizhny Tagil, Russia

While Rewari and Cuautla both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, Masrakh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Rewari and Cuautla both became progressively more disconnected, while Masrakh became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Masrakh and Rewari have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.