Nanpara 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 Nanpara plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Nanpara's incremental SNDi rose from 3.73 to 4.42 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Nanpara ranked 122nd out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 885th 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?

• Badin, Pakistan
• Chakia, India
• Rubaya, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Pingyu, China
• Itay el-Barud, Egypt
• Parnamirim, Brazil

In new street additions, Nanpara fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Badin built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Pingyu fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Nanpara became progressively more disconnected, while Badin became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Pingyu became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Nanpara and Badin have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.