Sitarganj 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 Sitarganj plotted against Uttarakhand and India. The SNDi of new construction in Sitarganj rose steadily, compared to Uttarakhand which rose steadily and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Sitarganj's incremental SNDi rose from 1.18 to 2.19 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sitarganj ranked 1st out of 20 cities in Uttarakhand and 68th 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?

• Torrevieja, Spain
• Pagar Alam, Indonesia
• Iglas, India
• Shevgaon, India
• Ruyang County, China
• Jaggayyapeta, India

In new street additions, Sitarganj built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Torrevieja fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Shevgaon built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Sitarganj and Torrevieja both became progressively more disconnected, while Shevgaon became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Notably, Sitarganj had a more connected network than Torrevieja in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.