Bharuwa Sumerpur 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 Bharuwa Sumerpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bharuwa Sumerpur peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Bharuwa Sumerpur's incremental SNDi fell from 3.47 to 1.36 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bharuwa Sumerpur ranked 98th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 661st 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?

• Brajarajnagar, India
• San José de Guanipa, Venezuela
• Helmond, Netherlands
• Samunakar, Nigeria
• Imabari, Japan
• Palmdale, United States

In new street additions, Bharuwa Sumerpur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Brajarajnagar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Samunakar built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Bharuwa Sumerpur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Brajarajnagar became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Samunakar became progressively more disconnected. Bharuwa Sumerpur and Brajarajnagar have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.