Miranpur 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 Miranpur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Miranpur peaked in 1991-2005, 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, Miranpur's incremental SNDi fell from 1.38 to 0.79 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Miranpur ranked 1st out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 2nd 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?

• Caldas, Colombia
• Proppo, Indonesia
• Malanpur, India
• Wanrong, China
• Yanting, China
• Zwickau, Germany

In new street additions, Miranpur built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Caldas fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Wanrong fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Miranpur fluctuated in connectivity, while Caldas became progressively more disconnected and Wanrong fluctuated in connectivity.