Desire paths: the unofficial footpaths that frustrate, captivate campus planners

Follow the sidewalk and you use the environment as the planners and designers intended. Cut through a plot of grass and you form what architects, design theorists, artists, philosophers and writers call a “desire path." Read on to learn about why these paths exist, what they can teach us, and why it's so hard to get rid of them.

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