This seems related to the idea of the Desire Path[0], which some of us may have heard by the story of the "architect who waited to see which pathways pedestrian

This seems related to the idea of the Desire Path[0], which some of us may have heard by the story of the "architect who waited to see which pathways pedestrians would take through his/her outdoor spaces, and then paved sidewalks to match those routes."[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path [1] https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-architect-who-waited-to-see-which-pathways-pedestrians-would-take-through-his-her-outdoor-spaces-and-then-paved-sidewalks-to-match-those-routes https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-architect-who-waited-to-se...