Salon 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 Salon plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Salon's incremental SNDi rose from 4.64 to 5.21 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Salon ranked 262nd out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1700th 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?

• Tanay, Philippines
• Tiko, Cameroon
• Zigui, China
• Yuanbaoshan, China
• Bimbilla, Ghana
• Jishan, China

In new street additions, Salon fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tanay built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Yuanbaoshan built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Looking at the full network, Tanay and Yuanbaoshan both became progressively more disconnected, while Salon grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Notably, Salon had a more connected network than Tanay in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.