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Written by Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 on 2025-01-16 at 13:14

A comic about desire paths

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Written by econads on 2025-01-16 at 13:28

@Natasha_Jay not really in the spirit of the whole thing, but unpaved packed earth paths can be used by some bees and insects to nest in, so yay desire paths.

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Written by BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 on 2025-01-16 at 13:29

@Natasha_Jay When I first heard of this concept, they were called 'meander-ways' and I prefer it. 😊

Great comic. Love the Alt-text, too.

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Written by Christian Rickert on 2025-01-16 at 13:31

@Natasha_Jay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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Written by TwoOfUs on 2025-01-16 at 13:33

@Natasha_Jay 😅 👍

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Written by Nina Felwitch :v_trans: on 2025-01-16 at 13:37

@Natasha_Jay unrealistic. There's no anti-homeless barrier on that bench.

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Written by Siguza on 2025-01-16 at 15:25

@ninafelwitch @Natasha_Jay yeah, I expected a brick wall, a trench, barbing wire, and eventually gun turrets and surveillance cameras.

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Written by Ciell on 2025-01-16 at 13:38

@Natasha_Jay @hayify 👆

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Written by Hay Kranen on 2025-01-16 at 13:48

@Ciell hebben we het daar wel eens over gehad? Olifantenpaadjes!

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Written by Ciell on 2025-01-16 at 13:55

@hayify ja! Stond dat niet al eens in je nieuwsbrief? Ik moest iig aan je denken, haha.

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Written by Hay Kranen on 2025-01-16 at 15:38

@Ciell Ongetwijfeld!

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Written by ndrs on 2025-01-16 at 13:45

@Natasha_Jay I love desire paths!

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Written by Ian K Tindale on 2025-01-16 at 13:47

@Natasha_Jay

Hah! Where I live, Beckton Park had a desire path every year

Last year they decided to re-do the park into “Beckton Meadows, plant a whole load of meadow plants for wildlife and for dogs to run around and shit in, made some small hills, put tables and chairs in, put wooden sculptures in, demarcated the meadow with fencing to confuse dogs, and made the desire path into an actual wide path with a few seats – not straight lines but a sort of ziggy-zaggy route, which is nice – could do with lighting at night though

[picture is Apple Maps currently imagining Beckton Park as it was over a year ago, the link is the project that turned the desire path into what it is now, and we all like it)

marlboroughhighways.co.uk/casestudy/queen-elizabeth-memorial-pathway/ This is the project and it’s good

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Written by Johanna Janiszewski on 2025-01-16 at 13:47

@Natasha_Jay I studied landscape architecture and was taught that if a desire path is necessary, the architectural design was bad to begin with.

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Written by Melissa on 2025-01-16 at 17:57

@JohannaMakesGames @Natasha_Jay That sounds like you’re expected to be superhuman? I prefer the approach of waiting for them to develop and then formalizing them.

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Written by Nyolc on 2025-01-16 at 19:24

@Foodecology @JohannaMakesGames @Natasha_Jay The best of both … but a clear and open mind to start the design with is needed.

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Written by R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 on 2025-01-16 at 13:54

@Natasha_Jay

This tickled my brain. :D

@sotolf

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Written by Mac Berg on 2025-01-16 at 13:55

@Natasha_Jay This rendition of the concept is fantastic. Love it!

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Written by Code of Amor 💘 on 2025-01-16 at 13:55

@Natasha_Jay This is about my level of problem with authority too 😂😆🤣

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Written by ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ on 2025-01-16 at 13:59

@Natasha_Jay LOL

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Written by Code of Amor 💘 on 2025-01-16 at 14:01

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Written by The Great Despot Virtue Is Dead! on 2025-01-16 at 14:06

@Natasha_Jay

massive props for finding a way to do an actual image description im ashamed to say i might have given up in your place

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-16 at 14:17

@Natasha_Jay the last frame made me chuckle.

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Written by MJ Ray on 2025-01-17 at 13:40

@bit101 @Natasha_Jay yeah, should have put the path to the crossing, not "finally admit defeat" but still not quite do what's desired. It's a typical council bumhead power-trip move to still try to force people to deviate just a little. But hey, in the real world, some councils would replace the hedge with a spike-topped fence and a metre of ankle-breaker paving behind it.

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Written by Albert Hickey on 2025-01-16 at 14:18

@Natasha_Jay I love seeing these IRL.

Makes me take pause when making decision as to what the actual desire requirement is not what I think looks neatest.

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Written by Rick @FOSDEM25 on 2025-01-16 at 14:26

@Natasha_Jay don't forget to map them in osm 🤭

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Written by Michael Weinhold on 2025-01-16 at 14:27

An article about desire paths: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desire-paths-can-lead-better-design/

A podcast episode about desire paths (and other things): https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/you-should-do-a-story/

@Natasha_Jay

[#]99pi #podcast #99PercentInvisible #design #architecture

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Written by Kevin Patrick Doyle 🍅🥫 on 2025-01-16 at 14:29

@Natasha_Jay the last frame sent me

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Written by Dr. Quadragon ❌ on 2025-01-16 at 14:40

@Natasha_Jay Desire paths are data, already visualised. All the planners need is to just act on it.

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Written by Maddad ☑️ on 2025-01-16 at 14:41

@Natasha_Jay

Yup, thats pretty much how it goes.

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Written by Anstattradler on 2025-01-16 at 14:42

@Natasha_Jay

In Germany it is called:

Gestaltung durch Nutzung

in english speaking countries:

Elephant paths ?

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Written by Nyolc on 2025-01-16 at 19:27

@Anstattradler @Natasha_Jay

In dutch: ‘Al doende leert men’ - learning by doing. Pragmatism. But clever design exists and is a good start.

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Written by MemoryLeech on 2025-01-16 at 14:47

@Natasha_Jay

Feel like there are parallels with CyberSecurity.

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Written by baconandcoconut on 2025-01-16 at 16:54

@CyberLeech @Natasha_Jay YES.

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Written by GhostOnTheHalfShell on 2025-01-16 at 14:52

@Natasha_Jay

Life finds a way.

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Written by Tyrion 🍺 on 2025-01-16 at 14:55

@Natasha_Jay

Makes me want to play Cities Skylines.

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Written by helmplus on 2025-01-16 at 14:57

@Natasha_Jay

So my takeaway is this: If I want a park bench and shrubbery, I need to form a desire path! 😉

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Written by Aaron on 2025-01-16 at 15:01

@Natasha_Jay there’s a community process off page

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Written by Marcos Dione on 2025-01-16 at 14:08

@Natasha_Jay and all I can think of is the poor #OpenStreetMap'er who has to make the updates on the map :-P

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Written by Fardels Bear on 2025-01-16 at 15:14

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Planting poison ivy and camouflaged steel traps works well.

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Written by Frank Heijkamp on 2025-01-16 at 15:21

@Natasha_Jay True

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Written by Alex ☕🇨🇦 on 2025-01-16 at 15:22

@Natasha_Jay desire paths find a way!

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Written by Club Manhattan on 2025-01-16 at 15:28

@Natasha_Jay cuánta belleza

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Written by Syscom on 2025-01-16 at 15:32

@Natasha_Jay i like this so much

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Written by McGargle on 2025-01-16 at 15:40

@Natasha_Jay 😀 We had (literally) exactly that situation in Passau The city gov didn´t want the people to cross the local market place diagonally between the university and the bus terminal, so they planted roses. After the thorny roses were "walked over" at a specific point they built a wire fence there. That too was "walked away". Finally the city gov gave up and paved a way through... Power to the people!

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Written by Madies Scythian on 2025-01-16 at 15:50

@Natasha_Jay Nørreport station square in Copenhagen did something similar https://www.cobe.dk/projects/norreport-station

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Written by Andre 🌈 on 2025-01-16 at 15:51

@Natasha_Jay bugs in software...

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Written by Western Exposure on 2025-01-16 at 15:54

@Natasha_Jay If I remember correctly, Kassel Uni (or was it Hohenheim?) did the same with a new block: wait for the desire lines to appear before completing the external groundwork and paving. It takes guts and is not easy to pull off in terms of the bill of quantities and tendering.

I recently put a triangular deadwood habitat structure into a plan where a desire line is waiting to happen because of the way the paths were laid out (not our doing). #landscapearchitecture

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