Hathras 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 Hathras plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Hathras rose steadily, 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, Hathras's incremental SNDi rose from 4.76 to 5.02 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Hathras ranked 205th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1307th 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?

• Jingjiang, China
• Cuenca, Ecuador
• Brighton, United Kingdom
• Jingdezhen, China
• Yazd, Iran
• Canning, India

While Jingjiang and Jingdezhen both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Hathras built increasingly disconnected streets over time in new street additions. For the full network, Hathras and Jingjiang both became progressively more disconnected, while Jingdezhen grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Hathras had a more connected network than Jingdezhen in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.