This document discusses an innovative education initiative called Learning Neighborhood that maps the assets of a neighborhood and turns the entire community into a classroom to create connections between sectors. It aims to turn around schools the government had decided to shut down. It also discusses Catraca Livre, an information hub that selects and delivers information on free and low-cost opportunities in the city via various media channels like radio, newspapers, displays on buses and subways.

1. Gilberto Dimenstein
April, 2012
The city in your hands

2. Learning Neighborhood
An innovative education initiative which turns
the whole community into a classroom.
It maps the assets of the neighborhood.
It creates connections and alliances between
and across sectors.

3. How can we turn-around a school the
government had decided to shut down?

4. How can we turn-around a school the
government had decided to shut down?

5. School Neighborhood
Instituto Fernand
Braudel

6. Catraca Livre
Catraca Livre (“Open Turnstile” in Portuguese) is
an information hub that selects and delivers
information on free and low-cost opportunities in
the city via a multi-channel media network that
includes radio stations, newspapers, Internet, bus
and subway display screens.

11. Startups

19. Bus and subway

22. Gilberto Dimenstein
April, 2012
The city in your hands