Mathia Alam 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 Mathia Alam plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Mathia Alam 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, Mathia Alam's incremental SNDi fell from 8.8 to 6.36 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mathia Alam ranked 249th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1593rd 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?

• Los Cristianos, Spain
• Banswada, India
• Zóbue, Mozambique
• Sant Vicenç dels Horts, Spain
• Ajara, Nigeria
• Sakon Nakhon, Thailand

In new street additions, Mathia Alam fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Los Cristianos fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Sant Vicenç dels Horts built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Mathia Alam fluctuated in connectivity, while Los Cristianos became progressively more disconnected and Sant Vicenç dels Horts became progressively more disconnected. Mathia Alam and Los Cristianos have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.