Gulavthi 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 Gulavthi plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gulavthi 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, Gulavthi's incremental SNDi fell from 5.51 to 4.81 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gulavthi ranked 216th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1369th 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?

• Hengfeng, China
• Sarni, India
• Ayyampettai, India
• Akbarpur, India
• Mobile, United States
• Jinxiang, China

In new street additions, Gulavthi and Akbarpur both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Hengfeng built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Gulavthi became progressively more disconnected, while Hengfeng became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Akbarpur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Gulavthi and Hengfeng have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.