{"id":8804,"date":"2016-10-28T20:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2016-10-28T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T20:15:33","slug":"social-science-capstone-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/2016\/10\/28\/social-science-capstone-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Science Capstone Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8805\" src=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Julia-Jones-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Julia Jones on hill in Brazil\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Social Science Capstone Award Winner<\/h1>\n<p>Congratulations to Julia Jones <strong>(AS &#8217;16)<\/strong>, who won the Prize for Best Capstone Project in the Social Sciences. Julia\u2019s project, \u201cSustainable Urban Alternatives: Rethinking Informality in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Favelas,\u201d is a study comparing the sustainability of a small favela, Asa Branca, with its formal counterpart Olympic Village using the LEED<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> for Neighborhood Development standard of sustainability. Her study found that the favela outperformed Olympic Village by 28% and earns a Gold Certification on LEED\u2019s sustainability scale.<\/p>\n<p>Her paper explores \u201cslums, shanty-towns, and informal living spaces not as the problem, but as solutions to achieving sustainable urbanism.\u201d Her findings are important because they prove that \u201cachieving economically viable, socially equitable, and environmentally conscious urban environments does not necessarily have to come from new construction or expensive redevelopment projects, but already exists organically in many slums.\u201d\u00a0Professor John Burdick served as Julia&#8217;s Capstone Advisor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8806\" src=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/map-of-2-sites-studied-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"map-of-2-sites-studied\" width=\"400\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Science Capstone Award Winner Congratulations to Julia Jones (AS &#8217;16), who won the Prize for Best Capstone Project in the Social Sciences. Julia\u2019s project, \u201cSustainable Urban Alternatives: Rethinking Informality in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Favelas,\u201d is a study comparing the sustainability of a small favela, Asa Branca, with its formal counterpart Olympic Village using the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-capstone-capstone-process","category-honors-student-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}