Lalsot 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 Lalsot plotted against Rajasthan and India. The SNDi of new construction in Lalsot followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Rajasthan which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Lalsot's incremental SNDi fell from 1.98 to 1.59 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lalsot ranked 27th out of 95 cities in Rajasthan and 237th 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?

• Fort-de-France, Martinique
• Biaora, India
• Xinlong, China
• Jhinjhak, India
• Hinomine 3-chome, Japan
• Kamsar, Guinea

In new street additions, Lalsot fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Fort-de-France built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Jhinjhak fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Lalsot became progressively more connected, while Fort-de-France became progressively more disconnected and Jhinjhak fluctuated in connectivity. Lalsot and Fort-de-France have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.