Faridpur 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 Faridpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Faridpur was at its lowest in 1991-2005, 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, Faridpur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.29 to 4.34 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Faridpur ranked 215th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1351st 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?

• Jagdalpur, India
• Pandharpur, India
• Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
• Semapur, India
• Marawi, Philippines
• Kipushi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

In new street additions, Faridpur and Semapur both built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns, while Jagdalpur built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Faridpur became progressively more connected, while Jagdalpur became progressively more disconnected and Semapur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Faridpur and Jagdalpur have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.