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Good. Finally. I realised this a long time ago, when I used to walk to school and got told off for taking short-cuts over the grass/plants - the truth is I wasn

• tcarnell 17y ago
  In fairness, you'd have to be fairly stupid not to know where would be a good place to put paths - People tend to walk in straight lines from A-B (or door-to-door on a campus)
  • teej 17y ago
    When you only have two buildings, only one door on each building, no other points of interest, a completely flat landscape, and no worries about ADA laws, it's a pretty easy problem. Then again, anything is easy when you control the variables.
• arketyp 17y ago
  I've always been frustrated by this. I realize that as a landscape architect there are aesthetic choices and perhaps for park lovers those shortcut trails can ruin a scene; personally I think there's a certain, non-dismissible, beauty in those natural pathway formations. At the end of the day -- well, most days -- people just want to pass as fast as possible and I think it's insane to expect anything different. At the local park where I live they built small fences (about a foot tall) to guide people around the grass, and what they got instead was stomped down broken metal bars, effectively adding trash to the park.