Dhanaura 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 Dhanaura plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Dhanaura was at its lowest 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, Dhanaura's incremental SNDi rose from 4.21 to 6.61 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dhanaura ranked 204th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1297th 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?

• Masohi, Indonesia
• Santa Barbara, United States
• O’Fallon, United States
• Chongnam, North Korea
• Singida, Tanzania
• Jing, China

In new street additions, Dhanaura built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Masohi built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Chongnam built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Dhanaura became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards, while Masohi became progressively more disconnected and Chongnam grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Dhanaura and Chongnam have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.