That reminds me of three cities I used to frequent. You could predict their economic and political situation based on the way desire paths were being handled.
Place 1: poor, left-wing. Nothing, the desire paths were left alone.
Place 2: rich, left-wing. Desire paths were nicely paved over.
Place 3: rich, right-wing. They placed big branches on a desire path to block it. After people started climbing over them, they fell a tree on it.
That reminds me of three cities I used to frequent. You could predict their economic and political situation based on the way desire paths were being handled.
What about poor, right wing? I think we need a political compass for desire paths.
What grass? That’s just a parking lot.
–Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970)