Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Do desire lines “record collective disobedience” ?
Desire lines criss cross our green spaces. Should we insist on sticking to the path or accept them? Do they reveal the flaws in a city's design?
This article in the New Yorker looks at desire lines and what they can teach us.
Desire Line at Lordship Rec, March 29th 2017
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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I love the idea of 'desire lines' - there's even one that traverses a muddy corner on the way to Sainsbury's.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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In Urban Design, it is explained that people will take the most convenient route, i.e. the shortest distance, while parks have paths for strolling and jogging, it is true taking in observations and listening will lead to better park design.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Do we want town planners to tell us where and how to walk ?
I remember when the Tottenham Hale gyratory was constructed, to ease traffic flow. Thirty years later, the Town Planners decide that easing traffic flow is not a good thing and restore two-way working.
Are these people capable of planning where to put a path ?
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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Apparently Wood Green is built in medieval desire lines from the days it was notorious as the wood to come to practice your archery. Makes you wonder if the councils attempt to shift the gravitational pull to a new town centre near Iceland will work.
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Planning wouldn't deal with park layout, but if master planning, indicate some requirements of the park, through opportunities aims and objectives.
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'Desire lines' is a great term to add to the design compendium.
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Sounds like an 'informal path improvement plan,' add your suggestions on HoL.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Interesting article - there seem to me to be relatively few "desire lines" in Finsbury Park, in spite of the generally pointlessly circuitous paths. I conclude that a common desire is simply to avoid wet or dirty shoes?
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The internet desire lines would be interesting to see, where do daily mail readers go afterwards and so on? Someone must have done it already ....
Supermarkets are obsessed about it too. Oyster has mapped us apparently as well.
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