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Emory as Place - Meaning in a University Landscape (Hardcover)
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Emory as Place - Meaning in a University Landscape (Hardcover)
Series: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications Series
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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 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.
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