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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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My old university found the perfect solution to this… pave where trails are made. It makes so much sense, and idk why it’s such a foreign concept literally everywhere else.
Edit: I also have to add: it makes me laugh when suropeans say that Americans are just absolute moronic buffoons, and then I see an unsolved simple problem like this, and realize… we are all human… except those demonic natives of Fiji. Fuck those guys.
The main state university in Massachusetts is like this. There was no centralized planning that wasn't hobbled by historical preservation efforts. So it's just a bunch of old buildings wherever, and then they did just that. Just paved whatever paths warn down in the lawn.
The campus is chaos, and it's basically impossible to navigate because of the building issue. They have started to correct this in the last decade. But to me, it's losing its charm. Nothing better than going into a building built 100 years ago, only to realize after missing the first class that you have to walk down this weird side hallway, over a catwalk to an entirely different building, but uses the old buildings naming convention. Just pure chaos, it was awesome. Oh and fucking with freshman is too easy, it ia hard enough to legitimately help them.