Chauri Chaura 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 Chauri Chaura plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Chauri Chaura's incremental SNDi rose from 4.0 to 4.15 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Chauri Chaura ranked 185th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1220th 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?

• Medea, Algeria
• Tokat, Turkey
• Samarbagh, Pakistan
• Oldenburg, Germany
• Tessaoua, Niger
• Funan, China

In new street additions, Chauri Chaura fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Medea built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Oldenburg built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Chauri Chaura grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Medea became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Oldenburg became progressively more disconnected. Chauri Chaura and Medea have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.