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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.