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I have a hobby of doing the opposite: making undesirepaths.
During large snowfalls, I often need to bring out the shovel and make a path, both from my house and in front of it towards the main road. I like to add turns and bends, just enough to confuse and lightly annoy, but not enough for people to consider stepping into deep snow or making their own path.
Ah the ol' desire path strikes again!
I enjoy the Desire Paths community here on Lemmy. It's so interesting to see what paths people take contrary to what paths are laid out for them.
I didn't know I needed this in my life but this strikes a chord in me
I created a desire path by biking to school every day in high school. After I left a sidewalk popped up covering it inch for inch. Mission accomplished
In my junior high days (mid 80s) My friends and I found a machete in one of their dad’s stuff. We spent a weekend bushwhacking paths around some city-owned but undeveloped land near a lake. We ended up wearing them down pretty good into bike paths with some jumps and cool whoops. A few years later, the city turned it into a park and paved our paths.
Thank you for your service 🫡
(like unironically. that rules)
Fuck yeah, awesome :)
I've heard a story about a college campus that didn't install any paths, waited for natural dirt paths to form in the grass, then installed paths there. Neat idea.
Makes sense for a college campus where everyone has a different schedule. Just draw a line between every building and there's your pathways.
University of Maryland did this with their walkways for a while. They let the kids beat down paths for the year to make the sidewalks.
Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.
I've often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.
They had regular sidewalks that the campus planners made. But they took a year to see what the students walking paths looked like.
I like how the path curves behind the bench after the bench goes up like people are choosing not to walk in front of people sitting on the bench.
Until the fuckers added another 2m/6ft to the walk by putting in the trashcan...
A full bench!? I miss benches that made sense instead of the hostile architecture ones popping up.
I heard Finnish municipalities do studies when it's newly snowed to check where the desired footpath goes by looking at tracks in the snow. It avoids that issue in the image
That certainly speeds up the process so they can Finnish early.
They don’t wanna be Russian around.
If that's a popular place to cut through, that hedge would also get wrecked from kids trying to see if they can jump it.
Source: the hedge surrounding part of the property of my childhood home. (I could jump it!)
not the content we deserve, but the content we desire
That hedge could actually be a gods windbreak behind the bench
My takeaway from this is that I can spawn park benches and greenery by walking on the grass.
That's why there are all those "keep off the grass" signs. If people just walked all over the grass willy-nilly we'd soon be knee deep in benches and bins, and nobody wants that.
Apparently when they were building the death star, they couldn't figure out where to put the vents, so they just turned off the gravity and threw a bunch of womp rats in the center and built out pipes along the vectors of where they died.
We were looking after someones dog for a week and we have a big yard for our dogs. This dog and one of ours got on so well they would chase each around the yard for hours, so much that after a week there was a desire path race track formed with noticeable banks around the corners and everything.
Local discounter had something like this, they just installed a hedge AND a fence. Really disenchanting. Not going there anymore.
Well I moved. But they cheated.
a bit of an extreme reaction to a hedge AND a fence, but I'll allow it.
All I see here is people tricking the government into putting in a nice little micropark.
I especially like when people do this in the snow and make big holes that I can easily step into
For the life of me, I can't figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.
Zoom in. The path is starting to show.
Correct. Couldn't see it at first. Just thought it was a pause for dramatic effect. Felt fine as a clone.
I figured that was just the pause before the punchline. Like, the city almost got it, but they still fucked it up a bit.
social trails
Desire paths
Least resistance or classic human defiance?
There's been locations in the past where the decision was made to initially just build the minimum paths for handicap access and etc and then wait for the desire paths to form to decide where to put the rest of them. Great idea really. The apartment complex started plowing the one that goes from my building to the gas station.
