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@cmconseils Such spontaneous paths are called "lignes de désir" in French and, if I remember correctly, something like "elephant paths" in Dutch. Nice illustration!
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@cmconseils A classic: #alt4me
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@cmconseils A classic: #alt4me
@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?
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Become ungoovernable.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social classic urban design by humans, not bureaucrats
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@cmconseils love that!
showed the illustration already several times in discussions with friends 
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@cmconseils Picture cropped to hide the original creator's signature (instachaaz on IG). Classic.
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@cmconseils Picture cropped to hide the original creator's signature (instachaaz on IG). Classic.
@bytesalat @cmconseils too bad, thanks for warning and a reason to block
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@cmconseils I wish desire paths led to benches being installed here. They are rare here.
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@cmconseils I love that these are called "desire paths" and that they are irrepressible!
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@cmconseils In Germany they would just put up a sign "Rasen betreten VERBOTEN" and be done with it.
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@schm @cmconseils Thanks! We should always credit the creator, even when they’re on a worse platform.
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@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 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
