Jakhania 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 Jakhania plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Jakhania 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. In terms of the aggregate network, Jakhania ranked 20th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 75th 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?

• Sahuayo de Morelos, México
• Matamèye, Niger
• Kropotkin, Russia
• Badulla, Sri Lanka
• Banethu, India
• Chirchiq, Uzbekistan

While Sahuayo de Morelos and Badulla both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Jakhania fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Sahuayo de Morelos and Badulla both became progressively more disconnected, while Jakhania fluctuated in connectivity. Jakhania and Sahuayo de Morelos have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.