{"id":168,"date":"2021-01-21T12:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/?p=168"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:46:23","slug":"reading-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/2021\/01\/21\/reading-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>Introduction<\/h1>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h1>Cities<\/h1>\n<p>The Life and Death of Great American Cities<\/p>\n<p>Happy Cities &#8211; Charles Montgomery<\/p>\n<p>The Death and Life of the Single-Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City &#8211; Nathanael Lauster<\/p>\n<h1>Literature<\/h1>\n<p>The Remains of the Day &#8211; Kazu Ishiguro<\/p>\n<p>1984 &#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<p>Heart of Darkness &#8211; Joseph Conrad<br \/>\nAt times antiquated, the book can be somewhat &#8216;cringe-worthy&#8217; by modern-day standards of indigenous relations. That said, the protagonist&#8217;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<\/p>\n<h1>Essays<\/h1>\n<p>Notes on Nationalism &#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<h1>Environment<\/h1>\n<p>Enterprising Nature &#8211; Jessica Dempsy<\/p>\n<h1>Poetry<\/h1>\n<p>Howl &#8211; Allen Ginsberg (Speaks of the Urban Fabric and the Humans Within)<\/p>\n<h1>Philosophy<\/h1>\n<p>The Republic &#8211; Plato<\/p>\n<p>The Geneology of Morals &#8211; Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p>The Prince &#8211; Niccolo\u00a0 Machiavelli<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; Charles Montgomery The Death and Life of the Single-Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/2021\/01\/21\/reading-lists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading Lists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seanroufosse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}