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desire path
noun
A footpath made through foliage, grass etc. by repeated traffic rather than laid out by design.
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Before long — or contra Long — the grass starts to wear out and a so-called "desire path" is formed.
When [some tools] take the Slack model they often get very focused on recency, and that determines an arbiter of value.[You have to think], what is the desire path for a document that becomes load-bearing in the company.
In other words, if the existing transport network cannot provide the desired accessibility of the pedestrian to his point of interest or an existing formal path to the destination cannot meet the basic principles of human spatial logic in route selection, a desire path may be formed by the individuals.
A desire path, also known as a desire line, social path or social trail, is a technical term that has been used by urban planners for almost a hundred years to denote a path formed by pedestrians in a formal urban environment [3].
Similar to the formation of the organic infrastructure in unplanned environments, a desire path is normally formed by individuals when there is no formally designed route to pedestrians' destinations or when there is a formal designed route that is inefficient for pedestrians.
They chose a patch of land at Cass Avenue and Canfield Street in Midtown, on the side of the Knickerbocker building, that has its own desire path.
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He also takes buses, and relishes the desire paths that make up the city's bus routes.
For examples of the many desire paths in Detroit, see the Sweet Juniper blog.
When Bartell looked at ways Detroit could become friendlier to its residents, he started noticing "desire paths".
UK duo Technimatic have taken on that challenge with their new album, Desire Paths, released on Shogun Audio – and they've actually succeeded, triumphantly so.
In a year with a number of notable drum 'n' bass releases, Technimatic's Desire Paths, released on seminal UK d'n'b label Shogun, takes the nod thanks to both the breadth and musicality of the album.
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