Much like the High Line, plans to clean up the desolate areas around the walkable bridge will make it ideal for leisurely walks and for discovering less trodden parts of Rotterdam.
But this is the exception to the rule, and most developers have to go the well trodden path of mainstream game genres if they are to attract publishers and, ultimately, an audience.
Concrete clad and perennially crowded, Bondi's well-trodden stretch of sand presents a broad slice of modern Sydney life, from the weather-beaten lap swimmers at the Icebergs sea pool, to the Negroni-swilling regulars at North Bondi Italian.
Against all that, rural rage over the flag and the fact that Mr Barnes had trodden on the toes of the state teachers' union seemed unimportant.
Some middle-income countries, such as Morocco, Mexico, Turkey and Libya, are well-trodden transit routes with migrant populations of their own.
Everyone got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind.
Many of its animators follow the well-trodden path to the Disney Studio, but a growing number are being seduced away by rival studios, television companies and smaller start-ups.
"It's ruining my company and the prospect of jobs for my employees, " Mr Trodden said.
But between setting out a claim under the Law of the Sea and enjoying the fruits of ownership there is a long route to be trodden.
Those who have gone, caught up in the spirit of adventure and religious zeal, are following a well-trodden path.
Athens, a street below the Acropolis: the old man in front of me stops in mid-stride to read a leaflet, which has been trodden into the pavement at his feet.
It has also trodden gingerly when it comes to grand strategic moves, avoiding the headline-grabbing mergers embraced by so many of its rivals.
Many of the barracks were destroyed by the retreating Nazis, but some still stand, thick with time-trodden dust and heavy with eerie air.
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