Amroha 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 Amroha plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Amroha followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to Uttar Pradesh which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Amroha's incremental SNDi fell from 5.21 to 4.91 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Amroha ranked 247th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1586th 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?

• Brno, Czechia
• Sri Ganganagar, India
• Aksu, China
• Orizaba, México
• Bari, Italy
• As Samawah, Iraq

While Brno and Orizaba both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Amroha fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Brno and Orizaba both became progressively more disconnected, while Amroha became progressively more connected. Amroha and Orizaba have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.