‘Path systems become ancient, and human history made real. Anyone who changes them is changing history, and runs the risk of falsifying it. Anyone who lays out a new path system is making history and must allow himself to be judged by history. Anyone who permanently occupies path systems restricts their effectiveness, even if it is to be promoted in the short term.
Every house occupies paths and every house needs paths.
We have many paths, too many if anything. We are forever building new paths, for horses, bicycles, cars, railways, aeroplanes. Those which have become useless we leave as part of the landscape: urban development detritus.’ (Frei Otto, 2009)
