Desire Paths

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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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I wonder how many of these paths on my university campus were desire paths originally (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That reminds me of three cities I used to frequent. You could predict their economic and political situation based on the way desire paths were being handled.

Place 1: poor, left-wing. Nothing, the desire paths were left alone.
Place 2: rich, left-wing. Desire paths were nicely paved over.
Place 3: rich, right-wing. They placed big branches on a desire path to block it. After people started climbing over them, they fell a tree on it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about poor, right wing? I think we need a political compass for desire paths.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What grass? That's just a parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

🎵Don't it always seem to go,

That ya don't know whatcha got,

Till it's gone,

They paved Paradise,

Put up a parking lot🎵

--Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" (1970)