similarly to the guia carioca da gastronomia de rua, the favela guide presents more than just professional quality photos and locations of the foods and establishments, seeing as it also tells the history of the restaurants and the unique stories of their founders - available in most bookstores, guia gastronômico das favelas do rio can also be purchased online via livraria cultura on this link, and via livraria travessa here. 

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.