@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.

@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.

@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