Maniar 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 Maniar plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Maniar 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, Maniar's incremental SNDi rose from 4.62 to 5.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Maniar ranked 127th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 908th 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?

• Lu, China
• Yongfeng, China
• Gelemso, Ethiopia
• Tulsipur, Nepal
• Sirius, Russia
• Wuyang, China

In new street additions, Maniar built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Lu fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Tulsipur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Maniar became progressively more disconnected, while Lu fluctuated in connectivity and Tulsipur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Maniar and Lu have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.