Lar 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 Lar plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Lar 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, Lar's incremental SNDi rose from 1.22 to 1.37 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Lar ranked 32nd out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 150th 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?

• Hengshan, China
• Maygyr, Uzbekistan
• Kankiya, Nigeria
• M'Saken, Tunisia
• Qingyang, China
• Pervomaisk, Ukraine

In new street additions, Lar fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hengshan built increasingly disconnected streets over time and M'Saken built increasingly connected streets over time. For the full network, Lar fluctuated in connectivity, while Hengshan became progressively more disconnected and M'Saken became progressively more connected. Lar and Hengshan have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.