Desire Paths
“Desire Path: A term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn’t designed but rather is worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points.”
via Everyone Forever
“Desire Path: A term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn’t designed but rather is worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points.”
via Everyone Forever
Levi Stahl wrote:
It’s one of my favorite terms. Working on a college campus means keeps it forever in the front of my mind, because there are always desire paths being worn down.
Posted on 15-Oct-07 at 6:54 am | Permalink
Michael K. wrote:
That’s my school. We’ve actually talked about that specific path in a class I took, esp. in relation to de Certeau and his concept of walking as an “act of enunciation.” Seems that the higher-ups at the university have worked awfully hard to limit the walking on that path, even setting up one of those plastic orange net-barriers at one point.
Posted on 15-Oct-07 at 10:26 am | Permalink