desirepath

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Desire path = Path developed by erosion caused by human footsteps. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination.

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Quotes
Claire was photographing desire paths... the imprints of 'foot anarchists', individuals who had trodden their own routes into the landscape, regardless of the intentions of government, planners and engineers. A desire path could be a short cut through waste ground, across the corner of a civic garden or down an embankment. They were expressions of free will, 'paths with a passion', an alternative to the strictures of railings, fences and walls that turned individuals into powerless apathetic automatons. On desire paths you could break out, explore,'feel your way across the landscape'. - Nick Crane 'Two degrees west' (1999)

Misc
Apparently, one newly-constructed college campus somewhere just took pictures of where everyone walked in snow, then in the spring just put the paths in those places.