Ghatampur 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 Ghatampur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Ghatampur peaked 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, Ghatampur's incremental SNDi fell from 6.67 to 4.97 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Ghatampur ranked 133rd out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 941st 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?

• Barwani, India
• Raleigh, United States
• 해안2동, North Korea
• Igboho, Nigeria
• Amparihimahitsy, Madagascar
• Weining, China

In new street additions, Ghatampur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Barwani fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Igboho built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Ghatampur and Igboho have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.