Udaynarayanpur 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 Udaynarayanpur plotted against West Bengal and India. The SNDi of new construction in Udaynarayanpur followed a zig-zag trend with an overall decrease, compared to West Bengal which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase and India which followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Udaynarayanpur's incremental SNDi fell from 5.79 to 5.73 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Udaynarayanpur ranked 95th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1638th 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?

• Umerkot, Pakistan
• Ica, Peru
• Purworejo, Indonesia
• Xingguo, China
• N'dalatando, Angola
• Rafiganj, India

In new street additions, Udaynarayanpur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Umerkot built increasingly disconnected streets over time and Xingguo fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. Looking at the full network, Umerkot and Xingguo both became progressively more disconnected, while Udaynarayanpur became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Udaynarayanpur and Umerkot have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.