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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think it was a US uni campus, that redid the lawn and didn't put down any walking paths and waited for the desire paths to form and then paved those

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Proof mankind in it's natural state is truly irredeemable

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It's kinda beautiful. Like an artwork perfectly depicting human nature.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Nah, I like it. It clearly shows the intent of movement of people and it basically minimises trail around time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I was coming here to say that! It's possibly apocryphal, but the way I heard it was that the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign did this when they did their main quad (I still remember them telling me this when I got a tour before applying there 30 years ago). And they didn't just look for where the plants were dead, but they also looked for broadleaf weeds, which sustain trampling better than grasses (it's a land grant university in the midwest. Of course there's an agriculture angle).