Lalganj 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 Lalganj plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Lalganj's incremental SNDi rose from 3.85 to 4.04 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lalganj ranked 150th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1068th 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?

• Anda, China
• Gaoping, China
• Vaniyambadi, India
• Al-Hasakah, Syria
• Linz, Austria
• Kasaragod, India

In new street additions, Lalganj fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Anda built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Al-Hasakah built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Lalganj and Al-Hasakah both became progressively more disconnected, while Anda became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Lalganj and Anda have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.