The document summarizes feedback from poor urban residents about problems requiring assistance. It reports that residents identified water supply and sanitation facilities as key issues, but did not view housing or construction as problems requiring assistance. It also notes that sustainable solutions depend on bottom-up community perspectives influencing top-down strategies.

1. Poor urban residents identified water
supply and better in-site sanitations
facilities as problems for which they
require assistance (...) Housing and
constructions, however, were not
identified by the poor urban resident
as problems for which they needed
assistance.
Deveolopment Workshop,
Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas, p 13

2. WORKING ON BOTH TOP-DOWN
AND BOTTOM-UP-STRATEGIES.
A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION
DEPENDS ON THE BOTTOM-UP
PERSPECTIVES’ INFLUENCE ON
THE TOP-DOWN STRATEGIES.

3. Make usage of the human potentials at the site,
facilitate local initiatives
KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS
ENTHUSIASM
POTENTIALS

4. TOP-DOWN STRATEGY
VS
1 000 000 APPARTMENTS 1 000 000 SOLAR PANELS
Top-down support of mass Top-down support of site,
produced appartments. sanitation systems and en-
ergy support
Lack of sanitation systems
and energy supply Lack of building mass

5. VS
FOUR WALLS A BASEMENT TO BUILD ONE’S OWN

6. “When you no longer improve your house,
you are close to death”
Arab proverb (Barefoot Architect, p 71)

7. SUGGESTION FOR TOP-DOWN STRATEGY SUPPORTING BASIC HOUSING NEEDS
-PAVING THE WAY FOR SELF-SUSTAINING LIVING UNITS.

8. A new infrastructural grid

9. Homogenious slum dwelling area Establishing a crosspiont inkluding Ripple effekt -
divided by railway social programs like station,
market, school, library etc.

10. SOCIAL
MEETING
CENTRE
QUALITY
DEVELOPING RAILWAY CENTRES IN EXISTING AREAS

11. THE CROSSING OF THE RAIL BECOMES A NATURAL MEETING POINT
AND POTENTIALLY A STARTING POINT TOWARDS URBAN DEVELOPMENT

12. TEAR DOWN TO BUILD NEW
POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT FROM EXISTING STRUCTURE