Mathura 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 Mathura plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Mathura's incremental SNDi rose from 4.39 to 5.04 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mathura ranked 197th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1268th 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?

• Hengshui, China
• Valparaíso de Goiás, Brazil
• Pittsburgh, United States
• Jafar Muhammad Ali, Iraq
• Beira, Mozambique
• Zhuji, China

In new street additions, Mathura fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Hengshui built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Jafar Muhammad Ali built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Mathura had a more sprawly network than Hengshui in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.