Cuautla 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 Cuautla plotted against Morelos and México. While Morelos and México both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Cuautla's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Cuautla's incremental SNDi rose from 4.27 to 5.09 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Cuautla ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Morelos and 156th out of 182 in México as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Masrakh, India
• Rewari, India
• Vrindavan, India
• Tuluá, Colombia
• Nizhny Tagil, Russia
• Asaka, Uzbekistan

In new street additions, Cuautla fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Masrakh fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Tuluá built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Cuautla and Tuluá both became progressively more disconnected, while Masrakh became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Cuautla and Masrakh have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.