Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Le Vele di Scampia was an apartment complex built to address a housing crisis in 1960s Italy. Despite the architect’s lofty goal of developing a Neapolitan utopia, several missteps in the execution saw it quickly deteriorate into an urban hell on earth.

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Selected print sources:
theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/20/scampia-residents-mourn-homes-as-razing-of-gomorrah-begins
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/20/news/scampia_cade_la_vela_verde_ma_non_basta_per_abbattere_gomorra-249120368/
http://www.patrimoniosos.it/rsol.php?op=getarticle&id=75862
terpress.blogspot.com/2011/10/le-case-vela-di-scampia-napoli.html
cdn.archilovers.com/projects/c29581fc-8833-4520-9dc7-16f0bc33fd7d.pdf
http://archive.is/H559
doaj.org/article/cd68bf395dc642be9802bffa41e47884
search-proquest-com.proxy.queensu.ca/docview/1882553232?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo
westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/download/b7ee1e9b96f8b9282d57f164d78899f7f71548850a948922e3063411d46dcce9/1187331/Architectural%2520self-fabrication.pdf
newsweek.com/inside-europes-heroin-capital-82831