Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape

Universities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history....
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Author: Gary S. Hauk
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Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape by Hauk, Gary S.

Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape

$79.15

Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape

$79.15
Author: Gary S. Hauk
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Universities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repository for the memories of countless students, staff, and faculty who have passed through its halls. The history of a university resides not just in its archives but also in the place itself--the walkways and bridges, the libraries and classrooms, the gardens and creeks winding their way across campus.

To think of Emory as place, as Gary S. Hauk invites you to do, is not only to consider its geography and its architecture (the lay of the land and the built-up spaces its people inhabit) but also to imagine how the external, constructed world can cultivate an internal world of wonder and purpose and responsibility--in short, how a landscape creates meaning. Emory as Place offers physical, though mute, evidence of how landscape and population have shaped each other over decades of debate about architecture, curriculum, and resources. More than that, the physical development of the place mirrors the university's awareness of itself as an arena of tension between the past and the future--even between the past and the present, between what the university has been and what it now purports or intends to be, through its spaces. Most of all, thinking of Emory as place suggests a way to get at the core meaning of an institution as large, diverse, complex, and tentacled as a modern research university.

Author: Gary S. Hauk
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 08/01/2019
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780820355627

About the Author
GARY S. HAUK is the university historian of Emory University, where he served in senior administrative positions for thirty years. He is also senior editorial consultant at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion and a longtime board member and officer of Georgia Humanities. He is the author of A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory since 1836 and Religion and Reason Joined: Candler at One Hundred.

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