Umarkhed 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 Umarkhed plotted against Maharashtra and India. The SNDi of new construction in Umarkhed peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Umarkhed's incremental SNDi fell from 1.69 to 1.55 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Umarkhed ranked 9th out of 157 cities in Maharashtra and 63rd 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?

• Aix-en-Provence, France
• Paliganj, India
• Fangcheng, China
• Ise, Japan
• Semarapura, Indonesia
• Orsha, Belarus

In new street additions, Umarkhed built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Aix-en-Provence built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Ise fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Aix-en-Provence and Ise both became progressively more disconnected, while Umarkhed grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Umarkhed and Aix-en-Provence have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.