"In any sizable park or green space, you’ll likely find two kinds of paths: the formal kind, paved with brick or concrete, and the informal kind, the paths made by people walking over and over a stretch of grass, wearing away the green and carving a scruffy emergent line in its place."
(What Can a Body Do?, p. 141)
"Tactical Urbanism is an approach to neighborhood building and activation using short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions and policies."
(Tactical Urbanism, Lydon and Garcia, 2015, p. 3)
“Although originally designed for users of wheelchairs, they are also used by parents pushing baby carriages, people pulling baggage carriers, bicycle riders, skateboard users, kids on tricycles, and any number of other people.”
(Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Vanderheiden, Jordan, and Lazar, 2021, p. 1219)
"A kneeling bus is a bus that not only has no steps between the door and the bus floor, but also has an air-adjustable suspension. This feature allows the driver to actually lower the bus to the curb to make entering and exiting the bus much easier."
(What is a Kneeling Bus? (Wikimotors))
Image: Champaign–Urbana Mass Transit District kneeling bus, by benjamin sTone on Flickr