Mau 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 Mau plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Mau's incremental SNDi rose from 5.77 to 7.02 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mau ranked 261st out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1691st 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?

• Yanji, China
• Ibagué, Colombia
• Málaga, Spain
• Al Minya, Egypt
• Eskisehir, Turkey
• Malacca City, Malaysia

In new street additions, Mau fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Yanji built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Al Minya built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Mau and Yanji both became progressively more disconnected, while Al Minya grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Mau and Al Minya have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.