Daryapur 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 Daryapur plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Daryapur rose steadily, compared to Maharashtra which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Daryapur's incremental SNDi rose from 2.17 to 2.92 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Daryapur ranked 26th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 139th 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?

• Grabag, Indonesia
• Qitai, China
• Dabou, Côte d'Ivoire
• Béziers, France
• Розвилка, Ukraine
• Talavera, Philippines

In new street additions, Daryapur built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Grabag built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Béziers built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Daryapur and Béziers both became progressively more disconnected, while Grabag became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Daryapur and Grabag have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.