available in major bookstores, favelas do Rio de Janeiro - História e direito is also available on-line via livraria travessa on this link. 

Published by Casa da Palavra, the book Aesthetics of swing: the architecture of favelas through the work of Hélio Oiticica (Estética da ginga: a arquitetura das favelas através da obra de Hélio Oiticica), by Paola Berestein Jacques is a highly astute and incisive work mapping three spheres of development and transition - the artistic, architectural and socio-cultural.

highly inter-disciplinary in nature, it interweaves concepts and discourse related to art, architecture and philosophy.