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I visited that estate in the very late 90s with a couple I was staying with in Napoli. (My friend had a relative that lived there.) In a city that is famed for dilapidation, Scampia took the biscuit. We remained in touch a for a few years after, sending Cds and things occasionally until I didn't hear from him again. When I visited many years later, I went to his apartment in Quartieri Spagnoli and found out through a neighbour that he was dead and his partner had moved away. Couldn't understand the dialect well enough to decipher what had happened.
Jung
@Oliver Schick
Not London but Napoli, but I thought it made for an interesting comparison:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/17/goodbye-to-gomorrah-the-end-of-italys-most-notorious-housing-estate
Quite astonishing.