Articulo: Retrofitting suburban cul-de-sacs: start with trails

"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.

"A close look at any city park or green will typically reveal footprints that break away from paved walks, trails that countless pedestrians have worn into the grass. Such a trail is a desire path: the route people have chosen to take across an open place, making a human pattern upon the landscape." (Citing Lan Samantha Chang, in Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney.)

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