Desire Line (di.ZYR lyn) n. An informal path that pedestrians prefer to take to get from one location to another rather than using a foot path or other official route.
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The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard first coined the phrase 'Desire Lines' in his 1958 book 'The Poetics of Space' - expressed as 'a term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn't designed, but is rather worn away by people finding the shortest distance between two points.