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Desire Paths |
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25 May 09 - The key to the desire path is not just that it's a path which one person or a group has made but that it's done against the will of some authority which would have us go another, rather less convenient, way.
Here is a superb video by felixphs.
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About Desire PathsIn a book by Nick Crane 'Two degrees west' (Viking 1999) - in which he tells of a walk due south across England - he writes: "Claire was photographing desire paths... the imprints of 'foot anarchists', individuals who had trodden their own routes into the landscape, regardless of the intentions of government, planners and engineers. A desire path could be a short cut through waste ground, across the corner of a civic garden or down an embankment. They were expressions of free will, 'paths with a passion', an alternative to the strictures of railings, fences and walls that turned individuals into powerless apathetic automatons. On desire paths you could break out, explore,'feel your way across the landscape'." |
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