Informal ‘desire paths‘ can form with as few as fifteen traversals of an unpaved route, creating spontaneous new trails shaped by pedestrians effectively voting with their feet. These paths frequently become self-reinforcing: others intuit the potential advantages of a newly-forming route and follow it, thus eroding it further and enhancing its visibility. Such unstructured routes can develop for
Fonte: Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design – 99% Invisible