Soron 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 Soron plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. The SNDi of new construction in Soron was at its lowest 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, Soron's incremental SNDi rose from 3.63 to 5.44 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Soron ranked 208th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1320th 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?

• Jhajha, India
• Malakwal, Pakistan
• Quva, Uzbekistan
• Kyzyl, Russia
• Repentigny, Canada
• Nakhodka, Russia

While Jhajha and Kyzyl both built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, Soron built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns in new street additions. Looking at the full network, Jhajha and Kyzyl both became progressively more disconnected, while Soron became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards. Soron and Jhajha have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.