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If you saw Matteo Garrone's film Gomorra which is based on Roberto Saviano book of the same name, you know there are The Sails of Scampia, a 1960s-era public housing complex and "the hellish modernist favela" that "has come to embody the architectural, political and social failings of Italy’s inability to contend fully with organized crime" (NYT). Here is a very incomplete reading list:

Wikipedia: Vele di Scampia
Images by Salvatore Esposito
Evolving Landscapes/Demolition: a half-way transformation
Around Naples
Around Napoli
NYT: Living Where Crime Conquers All
NYT: Underworld