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===[[Form]], not [[substance]]===
===[[Form]], not [[substance]]===
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“Desire lines” are the paths we make when our “built environment” lets us down.<ref>Nicely put by Steve Bates in “Lines of Desire”, ''{{plainlink|https://issuu.com/warrendraper/docs/doncopolitan_rosy2_issue__online_|Doncopolitan}}'', July 2014 </ref>
{{D|Desire lines|/dɪˈzaɪə laɪnz/|n}}
Informal pathways across open ground that emerge as individuals make their own judgments over time of the best and most convenient routes, often while ignoring central planning and designed pathways.
The paths we make when our built environment lets us down.<ref>Nicely put by Steve Bates in “Lines of Desire”, ''{{plainlink|https://issuu.com/warrendraper/docs/doncopolitan_rosy2_issue__online_|Doncopolitan}}'', July 2014 </ref>
Informal pathways across open ground that emerge over time as individuals make their own judgment about what are the most convenient routes, ignoring central planning and designed pathways.}}


The [[org chart]] is a formal diagram that places everyone in a logical, hierarchical relation to everyone else, reporting lines radiating out and down from the the splayed fingers of the [[chief executive officer]]. It is a centrally-sanctioned, aspirational, blueprint: to the executive suite what the “built environment” is to the town planner: a plausible account of how the organisation is ''meant'' to work.
The [[org chart]] is a formal diagram that places everyone in a logical, hierarchical relation to everyone else, reporting lines radiating out and down from the the splayed fingers of the [[chief executive officer]]. It is a centrally-sanctioned, aspirational, blueprint: to the executive suite what the “built environment” is to the town planner: a plausible account of how the organisation is ''meant'' to work.