Islamnagar 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 Islamnagar plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Islamnagar followed a zig-zag trend, 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, Islamnagar's incremental SNDi fell from 2.9 to 1.42 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Islamnagar ranked 56th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 337th 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?

• Hijazah, Egypt
• Hirna, Ethiopia
• Sohung, North Korea
• Uông Bí, Vietnam
• K'Ali K'Esa Bota, Ethiopia
• Xinxian, China

In new street additions, Islamnagar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hijazah fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Uông Bí built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Islamnagar fluctuated in connectivity, while Hijazah fluctuated in connectivity and Uông Bí became progressively more disconnected. Islamnagar and Uông Bí have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.