Matthew Skelton
Lady Laura 
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Serge Keller 🥐@cmconseils Such spontaneous paths are called "lignes de désir" in French and, if I remember correctly, something like "elephant paths" in Dutch. Nice illustration!
Robin Adams
Lux 
@robinadams @cmconseils a picture of a person walking on a desire path, as a shortcut between two paved roads.
The road is labeled "design" and the desire path is labeled "user experience".
Edit : would you mind updating the image to add the description?
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈
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Billy SmithBecome ungoovernable. :D
Stage name Jay Peach@cmconseils classic urban design by humans, not bureaucrats
Gregg Alley@cmconseils Reminds me of the time a “Karen” wrote a letter to the editor asking why the city was “wasting money” by building a sidewalk along a busy road that “no one would ever walk on”. There was literally a path worn in the deep grass. 🤦♂️
Thorsten Rochelmeyer@cmconseils That's "desire lines".
There was a University a while ago that build some new buildings on Campus and left the ground in between untreated for a while. Later they paved ways, where the desire lines showed up.
Might be the more natural and better way to treat human needs.
EQ@thorsten4future @cmconseils That is my life's philosophy. I think about this comic every time I take a shortcut. If you find your park having a two lane shortcut over the grass, you have done a bad job planning that park for the actual users.
I would try to plan out where people will be walking/biking and do those as roads. Then I would wait a year to see where the grass disappears and make that into gravel roads at least. I have seen a few places where that has happened around here.
gnarf@thorsten4future @cmconseils They did this at my Alma Mater, the University of Würzburg/Germany. Though I must admit that the campus for natural science is super ugly, I always liked the organic path design. They regularly added paths whenever new buildings/destinations emerged as well
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Gregor Schmidt
Vorsos
Prisma@cmconseils love that! 😂 showed the illustration already several times in discussions with friends 😂😁👍
@cmconseils Picture cropped to hide the original creator's signature (instachaaz on IG). Classic.
Robert Wolff@bytesalat @cmconseils too bad, thanks for warning and a reason to block 😥
Gustavo@cmconseils I wish desire paths led to benches being installed here. They are rare here.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@cmconseils I love that these are called "desire paths" and that they are irrepressible!
#urbanDesign
#urbanDesign
Bebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴☠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴@cmconseils In Germany they would just put up a sign "Rasen betreten VERBOTEN" and be done with it.
Feral 3D
Tuchowski
Tajuyan Tachyon
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@cmconseils I don't know/remember the source for this comic, but this comic is what actually inspired a small little bit of detail in my worldbuilding:
In my main OC's empire Synthetica, this is exactly how paved paths through greenspaces get planned.
The greenspace is left unpathed and when the desire paths become visible, those get paved to make them more accessible.
:)
Danny Boling ☮️This is the way. My college did a big landscaping overhaul and did the same thing: wait until the students had marked the paths, then laid sidewalks on them. It's so *obvious* once you see it work the first time.
PeteGoldsmith@cmconseils @layoutSubviews r/desirepath is my happy place