Desire Lines
In some cases, land planners have deliberately left land fully or partially unpathed, waiting to see what desire paths are created, and then paving those. In Finland, planners are known to visit their parks immediately after the first snowfall, when the existing paths are not visible. People naturally choose desire paths, clearly marked by their footprints, which can be then used to guide the routing of new purpose-built paths.
Es macht meistens mehr Sinn, zuerst die Leute zu beobachten, bevor man z.B. einen Weg pflastert…