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[citizenk@mastodon.top]

@cmconseils Such spontaneous paths are called "lignes de désir" in French and, if I remember correctly, something like "elephant paths" in Dutch. Nice illustration!

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@cmconseils A classic: #alt4me

[bnlandor@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils [Christopher Alexander has entered the chat]

[orange_lux@eldritch.cafe]

@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?

#ALT4you

[billysmith@social.coop]

@cmconseils

Become ungoovernable.

[jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social]

@cmconseils@mastodon.social classic urban design by humans, not bureaucrats

[galley@mastodon.online]

@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. ‍️

[thorsten4future@climatejustice.social]

@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.

[evelinesulman@akademienl.social]

@cmconseils

[schm@toot.berlin]

@cmconseils Source is https://www.instagram.com/p/DQV1eLvlaB1/

[eq@mas.to]

@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.

[prisma@chaos.social]

@cmconseils love that! showed the illustration already several times in discussions with friends

[bytesalat@norden.social]

@cmconseils Picture cropped to hide the original creator's signature (instachaaz on IG). Classic.

[mahlzahn@nerdculture.de]

@bytesalat @cmconseils too bad, thanks for warning and a reason to block

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@cmconseils I wish desire paths led to benches being installed here. They are rare here.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@cmconseils I love that these are called "desire paths" and that they are irrepressible!
#urbanDesign

[bebef@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils In Germany they would just put up a sign "Rasen betreten VERBOTEN" and be done with it.

[vorsos@beige.party]

@schm @cmconseils Thanks! We should always credit the creator, even when they’re on a worse platform.

[gnarf@hachyderm.io]

@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

[feral_3d@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils lol.