>>So, was 'Little America' the slums? :o)
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>Nope, that's actually where they put the first block of high rises from the late fifties, with one "skyscraper" which went for maybe 10 floors. It's in the middle of a former meander of a river (which was an island for a while), and half a mile from the main square.

Sounds like the setting of Kieslowski's "The Decalogue" (sometimes translated as "The Dekalog").