Auraiya 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 Auraiya plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Auraiya rose steadily, 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, Auraiya's incremental SNDi rose from 8.71 to 11.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Auraiya ranked 284th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1818th 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?

• Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
• Dordrecht, Netherlands
• Siem Reap, Cambodia
• San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
• Xiangcheng, China
• Linxia, China

In new street additions, Auraiya and Pavlodar both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while San Salvador de Jujuy built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Auraiya and Pavlodar have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.