Bangarmau 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 Bangarmau plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bangarmau peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Bangarmau's incremental SNDi fell from 3.96 to 2.29 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bangarmau ranked 59th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 359th 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?

• Chirala, India
• Chizhou, China
• Tebessa, Algeria
• Mollar Char, Bangladesh
• Santa Clara, Cuba
• Charleroi, Belgium

In new street additions, Bangarmau built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Chirala fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Mollar Char built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Bangarmau grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Chirala became progressively more disconnected and Mollar Char became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards.