"The Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Municipal (IBAM) is the most important research center currently working on favelas and their problems. Architects, engineers, and urban planners, many of them veterans of the campaigns of the 1960s to "urbanize the favelas" by providing them with specific housing and public services, run the institute today. The IBAM Library also contains the private papers of the late Carlos Nelson Santos Ferreira dos Santos, the architect who headed a much-publicized attempt in 1967 to urbanize the favela of Brás de Pina, located along Avenida Brasil. The Carlos Nelson collection, which is currently being catalogued, contains over two thousand books, magazines, and original manuscripts dealing with Brazilian urban life and the problems of housing the poor.7 Papers relating to the Brás de Pina urbanization project include studies of energy distribution and the dangers of flooding as well as sketches made by the residents of the kind of housing they would have liked to request from the city."