the.com/desire path
the trail people carve where the sidewalk should have been.
means an unofficial path worn into the ground by foot traffic taking the route that actually makes sense.
from coined from the french sentier de désir, popularized by landscape architects who learned to build campus paths only after watching where students walked first.
design wisdomsome architects wait a year before paving anything
also calledcow path, social trail, elephant path
disney secretparks study them to place trash cans and shortcuts