Umaria 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 Umaria plotted against Madhya Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Umaria's incremental SNDi rose from 3.39 to 4.83 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Umaria ranked 45th out of 98 cities in Madhya Pradesh and 881st 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?

• Faku, China
• Agoo, Philippines
• Jinning, China
• Bitola, North Macedonia
• Wuding, China
• Honggu, China

In new street additions, Umaria fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Faku built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Bitola built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Umaria and Bitola both became progressively more disconnected, while Faku became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Umaria had a more connected network than Bitola in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.