Gyanpur 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 Gyanpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Gyanpur 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, Gyanpur's incremental SNDi rose from 6.2 to 6.24 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Gyanpur ranked 268th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1724th 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?

• Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Fez, Morocco
• Anyang, China
• Tripoli, Libya
• Niamey, Niger
• Soshanguve, South Africa

While Liverpool and Tripoli both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Gyanpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Liverpool and Tripoli both became progressively more disconnected, while Gyanpur became progressively more connected. Gyanpur and Tripoli have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.