There’s a college in Chicago, i think it’s IIT maybe, that used aerial photography to map out the student cow paths, then they redid all the sidewalks to incorporate those paths.
Edit: they ended up adding a building in a grassy area and maintained all the hall/walkways of the building in line with the sidewalks/cowpaths. Kinda neat.
I love this type of urbanism. Some cities also study how cars behave in winter by looking at the tracks in the street, and they realized cars actually needed much less room on street corners than they thought.
There’s a college in Chicago, i think it’s IIT maybe, that used aerial photography to map out the student cow paths, then they redid all the sidewalks to incorporate those paths.
Edit: they ended up adding a building in a grassy area and maintained all the hall/walkways of the building in line with the sidewalks/cowpaths. Kinda neat.
Ohio State University
Brilliant!
My old college looked a lot like that! I wouldn’t be surprised if they were copying their idea
The grass is hot lava.
This has happened at a LOT of colleges. Penn State’s quad is crisscrossed with paths that they paved.
I love this type of urbanism. Some cities also study how cars behave in winter by looking at the tracks in the street, and they realized cars actually needed much less room on street corners than they thought.
Every winter I see same corner filled with snow and nothing changed. They for sure need to cut some corners.
I’d be surprised if students didn’t immediately make new paths off the new sidewalks