A fissure between planning and use, delineated by an evolving marker of human flow. Desire paths are expressions of free will in planned space. The over-determined, static plan meets the fluid usage and ever evolving destinations of human movement.

Man walks in a straight line because he has a goal and knows where he is going…

- Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow

Modernism gave us right-angles and inspired an age of corner cutting. Landscaped new towns gave us simulacral curves that similarly inspired shortcuts in the mud.