Mauranipur 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 Mauranipur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Mauranipur peaked in 1976-1990, 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, Mauranipur's incremental SNDi fell from 7.07 to 5.62 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mauranipur ranked 264th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1705th 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?

• Gunnowal, India
• Digos, Philippines
• Panyabungan, Indonesia
• Lae, Papua New Guinea
• Al Kifl, Iraq
• Elbląg, Poland

In new street additions, Mauranipur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, while Gunnowal built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Lae built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Mauranipur grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Gunnowal became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Lae became progressively more disconnected. Notably, Mauranipur had a more connected network than Gunnowal in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.