Aligarh 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 Aligarh plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Aligarh's incremental SNDi rose from 3.31 to 3.72 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Aligarh ranked 101st out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 682nd 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?

• Denpasar, Indonesia
• Linyi, China
• Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh
• Basra, Iraq
• Hamburg, Germany
• Zibo, China

While Denpasar and Basra both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Aligarh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Aligarh and Basra have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.