Introduction

This list acts as an attempt to speak to the important works that I have read and keep a list personally to reflect back on.

Cities

The Life and Death of Great American Cities

Happy Cities – Charles Montgomery

The Death and Life of the Single-Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City – Nathanael Lauster

Literature

The Remains of the Day – Kazu Ishiguro

1984 – George Orwell

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
At times antiquated, the book can be somewhat ‘cringe-worthy’ by modern-day standards of indigenous relations. That said, the protagonist’s ability to override his understanding of the colonized as not mere savages was, for the time, a progressive stance. The book does an excellent job with imagery around the vast jungles of the Congo and introducing European readers to the world outside the continent. The view

Essays

Notes on Nationalism – George Orwell

Environment

Enterprising Nature – Jessica Dempsy

Poetry

Howl – Allen Ginsberg (Speaks of the Urban Fabric and the Humans Within)

Philosophy

The Republic – Plato

The Geneology of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Prince – Niccolo  Machiavelli