Patharhat 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 Patharhat plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Patharhat's incremental SNDi rose from 4.72 to 5.27 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Patharhat ranked 239th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1503rd 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?

• Puqian, China
• Lianping, China
• Balsas, Brazil
• Fugou, China
• Bhangura, Bangladesh
• Lufeng, China

While Puqian and Fugou both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved, Patharhat fluctuated in its street-construction patterns in new street additions. For the full network, Patharhat fluctuated in connectivity, while Puqian grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Fugou grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Patharhat and Puqian have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.