Daurala 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 Daurala plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Daurala followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, 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, Daurala's incremental SNDi fell from 5.56 to 1.74 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Daurala ranked 210th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1333rd 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?

• Fulda, Germany
• Nuodong, China
• Prilep, North Macedonia
• Nikla Al Inab, Egypt
• Shahe, China
• Honnavar, India

While Fulda and Nikla Al Inab both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Daurala fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Fulda and Nikla Al Inab both became progressively more disconnected, while Daurala fluctuated in connectivity. Daurala and Fulda have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.