Uttar Chandipur 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 Uttar Chandipur plotted against West Bengal and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Uttar Chandipur's incremental SNDi rose from 4.74 to 6.08 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Uttar Chandipur ranked 75th out of 140 cities in West Bengal and 1469th 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?

• Luton, United Kingdom
• Pare, Indonesia
• Suining, China
• Pingdu, China
• Kaiyuan, China
• Kaluga, Russia

In new street additions, Uttar Chandipur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Luton built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Pingdu built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. Looking at the full network, Luton and Pingdu both grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Uttar Chandipur fluctuated in connectivity.