Bulandshahr in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Bulandshahr in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Bulandshahr plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Bulandshahr 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, Bulandshahr's incremental SNDi rose from 4.2 to 4.3 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Bulandshahr ranked 145th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1021st out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.3
- Rank in India
- 711th of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 137th of 291
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.92
- Rank in India
- 1021st of 1868
- Rank in Uttar Pradesh
- 145th of 291
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Akure, Nigeria
- Zaragoza, Spain
- Cipanas, Indonesia
- Raebareli, India
- Ambala, India
- Long Xuyên, Vietnam
In new street additions, Bulandshahr and Raebareli both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Akure fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Bulandshahr had a more sprawly network than Akure in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.